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Interesting, I remember the last time clang was tested using an AMD CPU the performance was abysmal compared to GCC.
and for being ~$800 cheaper, the FX-8350 performs pretty well in general.
Phoronix: GCC 4.8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 3.3 Compiler Performance
In preparation for the upcoming release of LLVM 3.3, here is an extensive round of C/C++ benchmarks from GCC 4.8.0, LLVM Clang 3.2, and LLVM Clang 3.3-rc1 to look at the Linux compiler performance. Benchmarks happened from three different systems bearing Intel Core i7 3960X, AMD FX-8350, and Intel Core i3 3217U processors for a diverse look at the performance.
Interesting, I remember the last time clang was tested using an AMD CPU the performance was abysmal compared to GCC.
and for being ~$800 cheaper, the FX-8350 performs pretty well in general.
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Well here's the thing... that's not really true for one simple reason a desktop workload unlike a benchmark (outside of gaming) doesn't consist of running a single application at a time, just an example from myself I've got firefox open with a number of tabs, my IDE, a konsole, my chat clients and dolphin, as well as stuff like dropbox running in the background. any one of these (ignoring the coding and thus compiling) is not particularly heavily threaded but since I'm running all these things I'm taking advantage of more cores. It's certainly not enough to push it up to beating a 3990X but that's besides the point.
Glad to see he is now displaying full optimization flags, also glad that he is using -O3.
Still don't understand why he persists in doing openmp benchmark comparisons as they are totally worthless until clang/llvm supports openmp.
He finally acknowledges that testing stuff like ffmpeg yields no real difference as pretty much all performance critical code is in assembly, so why not just _disable_ assembly optimizations? It would definitely be interesting in seeing how these compilers compare when optimizing video compression oriented code, just compile and benchmark x264 with './configure --disable-asm'.
Also had to laugh at the bias when describing the results, in the C-Ray test GCC4.8 was (by my quick estimate) ~10% faster on Intel Core 3960X, ~40% faster on AMD FX-8350 and ~10% faster on Intel Core i3, this result is described by Michael as a 'slight performance edge'.
10%-40% is not a slight performance edge in compiler optimization.
Except on a desktop workload, all those background apps are usually idle (at least enough that all of them put together can run on a single core without problems), and you're just waiting on whatever you have active at the moment. Which is usually single threaded.
A lot of times, even stuff that is heavily threaded, like a game, will still be limited by the speed of a single thread, because the work they do on the background threads is relatively limited compared to the main one.
You need to find something that truly breaks up equal amounts of work on 8+ threads to make the AMD chips look good right now.
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Competition in the compiler space spurs performance improvements in both camps. The masses cheer. And then call Clang not free enough because it uses a permissive license.
Phoronix: LLVM/Clang 3.3 Offers Performance Improvements
Recent compiler testing of the latest LLVM/Clang 3.3 SVN code-base has yielded some significant performance boosts for some common C/C++ benchmarks against LLVM/Clang 3.2...
Competition in the compiler space spurs performance improvements in both camps. The masses cheer. And then call Clang not free enough because it uses a permissive license.
pretty accurate summary
Would love to have seen GCC 3.8 thrown in the mix.
The benchmarks above have no optimizations ... what's the point ?
Okay, if you are testing O3 then you need to update the caption below the charts. The current captions describe some g++ flags.
Also, why did you choose these workloads ? I am puzzled by the odd benchmark selection. When you benchmarked the auto-vectorizerd you decided to run some database program, and for this you decided to focus on cryptography (John and Botan). You should standardize your workload set and keep it the same for all of your reviews.
Usually the set of tests is the same, but only interesting changes get shown in the articles. For the full set there's usually the openbenchmarking link.
Last GCC vs Clang (too long ago) had GCC winning most of the time (in ARM?), but the latest gains for Clang are greater than GCC.
Mentally, I don't know which is faster now.
One thing I would like to see, with all these benchmarks, is some analysis of why we are seeing what we are seeing.
For example, in the aggressive improvements we have seen, is there reason to believe that the results are
- because of the auto-vectorizing? OR
- because of AVX (ie the 3.2 vectorizing worked well, just didn't target AVX)? OR
- recognition of idioms and automatic use of the Intel crypto instructions from C? OR
- polyhedral optimization (automatic refactoring array code for better memory usage --- been demoed for a while, but I don't know if it has been mainlined yet or not)? OR
- automatic use of OpenMP? (this has been an ongoing difference between GCC and LLVM, to the extent that many of the benchmarks we have seen are worthless if you want to UNDERSTAND the compilers, as opposed to simply wanting to spout your mouth off). I also don't know if automatic use of OpenMP has made it into mainline LLVM 3.3
Point is, with these sorts of details these articles could become so much more valuable.


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When postseason aspirations are no longer realistic, teams look for other sources of motivation to attain victories. The task of simply improving -- so that they aren't in the same position next season -- often does the trick. For the Astros, it's redemption.
The Astros close the series Sunday by getting another shot at Blue Jays left-hander Mark Buehrle, who threw a two-hit shutout and struck out nine batters when he faced Houston on July 25 in Toronto. Astros manager Bo Porter said hitting coach John Mallee and assistant hitting coach Dan Radison will have his team better prepared this time around.
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It had been four years since Buehrle had thrown a shutout. By the end of the night, the 34-year-old struck out nine Houston batters, including former Blue Jay Brett Wallace three times, racking up the most strikeouts he's had in one game since April 16, 2005.
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Sunday's start will be the first of Keuchel's career against Toronto. He's 3-3 with a 2.95 ERA in 10 starts at Minute Maid Park. The left-hander allowed four runs in four innings in a no-decision last Saturday against the Angels.
"[Keuchel] didn't have his best stuff tonight," Porter said after the game. "A lot of deep counts and it looked like he was not finishing his pitches."
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Bedard, 34, signed a Minor League deal with the Astros and won an Opening Day spot, though he briefly began the year in the bullpen before moving to the rotation. He's 3-9 with a 4.48 ERA in 25 games this year, including 23 starts. He wasn't happy with the decision.
The Astros will continue to employ a six-man rotation and will announce which player is going into the rotation in the next few days. Lucas Harrell will remain in the bullpen. One of the candidates is rookie David Martinez, who won 14 games between Triple-A and Double-A before being called up Wednesday.
"They said they looked at my last two years and my innings total was around where I'm at right now, and they said if I keep pitching I'll be about 40 over, and I said, 'Yeah, that's the point.' That's it. I'd rather stay in the rotation," Bedard said.
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• The Astros entered the series vs. Toronto with the second-worst offense in the American League, but have been firing on all cylinders against the Blue Jays' pitching staff. Houston has scored 20 runs in the first two games of the series and will be looking for the sweep on Sunday afternoon.
• The Blue Jays have lost seven consecutive games, which ties a season high from July 14-24. Toronto also finds itself a season-high 16 games below .500 and is 12-24 (.333) since winning a season-high 11 games from June 11-23, which is the second lowest winning percentage in the AL over that span.
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It does the same things for a few other tests as well. Build-php gives me an invalid checksum error, as well as Nexuiz. Also, super-pi does not run; it initializes the test, but never finishes.
On PTS 0.6.0 every time I try to download the encode-flac I get an "invalid-checksum" error. Anybody having a similar problem?
It does the same things for a few other tests as well. Build-php gives me an invalid checksum error, as well as Nexuiz. Also, super-pi does not run; it initializes the test, but never finishes.
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What file specifically is the checksum not matching for?
It tells me that the downloaded checksum is incorrect:
Maybe a problem with sourceforge itself?Code:Downloading Files For: encode-flac ==================================== http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/flac/flac-1.2.1.tar.gz Downloading File: flac-1.2.1.tar.gz --09:37:12-- http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/flac/flac-1.2.1.tar.gz => `flac-1.2.1.tar.gz' Resolving internap.dl.sourceforge.net... 126.96.36.199 Connecting to internap.dl.sourceforge.net|22.214.171.124|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying. --09:42:22-- http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/flac/flac-1.2.1.tar.gz (try: 2) => `flac-1.2.1.tar.gz' Connecting to internap.dl.sourceforge.net|126.96.36.199|:80... failed: No route to host. The MD5 check-sum of the downloaded file is incorrect. Would you like to try downloading the file again (Y/n)?
Looks to me like your machine can't actually get to that sourceforge mirror.
Try a traceroute to internap.dl.sourceforge.net, there's nothing wrong with the file itself:
Code:[uncle_fungus@Iguana encode-flac]$ md5sum flac-1.2.1.tar.gz 153c8b15a54da428d1f0fadc756c22c7 flac-1.2.1.tar.gz [uncle_fungus@Iguana phoronix-test-suite]$ grep -C 1 internap pts/test-resources/encode-flac/downloads.xml | grep MD5 <MD5>153c8b15a54da428d1f0fadc756c22c7</MD5>
I just added in another SourceForge mirror in the git code, which it will automatically turn to if one of the other mirrors fails.


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This case provides the outcome to "The Refinancing of Shanghai General Motors (A)" in which the CFO of General Motors' joint venture in Shanghai, Shanghai General Motors (SGM), wants to refinance almost $900 million of project finance it raised to begin operations. The highest priority is improving the terms of the financing with regard to costs and specific covenants. Several factors complicate the CFO's objective, including the presence of capital controls, the impending entry of China into the World Trade Organization, the joint venture partner's captive finance subsidiary, and the conflicting goals of the joint venture partners. The case illustrates how subsidiary financial decisions must trade off entity-level and parent-level concerns. It also illustrates how multinational financial decision making--including transfer pricing, repatriation, and funding decisions--must be designed to accommodate governance concerns, financial objectives, and the potentially divergent interests of joint venture partners. The framework of the ongoing operational and investment decisions that Shanghai General Motors undertakes in its early growth dmeonstrates the "life cycle" of subsidiary finance. The case also touches on elements of foreign governments' attempts to regulate capital markets, the dynamic between domestic and international banks in competing for lending opportunities to multinational subsidiaries, and how subsidiary management can achieve the most desirable funding terms.
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Rep. Joe Wilson
Republican • 2nd District, South Carolina • 8th Term • Sworn In 2001
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So disrespecting the president of the United States is a way to get your point across??? come on "uncajake" you can't agree with what this man did…no one is saying he can't have an opinion but there is a time and a place for everything and he above all as a congressman should know that, if he's going to act like a child whenever someone says something he doesn't like then he needs to give up his seat IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!
The only thing that surprises me more than the blatant disregard that many in our government have for their constituents as intelligent human beings, is how blindly those same intelligent humans will fight for the R or the D. Mr. Wilson gave the noble sacrifice of his career to bring light to a lie which has been handed to the American public, and all you can focus on is the fact that he spoke out of turn. Have you given any thought to the fact that not one of the supporters of the health care bill can prove that the President was not lying? In fact measures have been taken in the other direction, to make sure that Illegal aliens are covered. So I ask you ladies, which is more detrimental to the future of our Great Nation, a rude representative, or an untruthful President?
Obama has done MORE than his share of disrespecting his position – bowing to foreign dignitaries, entertaining despots and murderers. The fact that a man was willing to sacrifice his career and reputation for the sake of integrity and the American people's welfare is WELL worth the price of protocol. Had I been there, I'd have at very least gotten up and walked out…would love think I'd had the courage to do what Rep. Wilson did.
The POTUS is not the boss of the Congress. That's one of the problems right now in the USA, that people are so ignorant of The Constitution that we are allowing it to be shredded before our eyes due to that ignorance. FYI: The Executive and Legislative branches are supposed to have checks and balances between them, and the same for the Judicial branch as well. The POTUS said that he was prepared to "rule" when he took office, and that is exactly the way he is approaching The Office. The POTUS is a public servant, not the Ruler, and not The Boss. My 10th grade POD teacher brought me up to speed on that, and my pocket copy of The Constitution has it in black-and-white.
LOL – I realize I am late to the party, but this was too funny. If Joe shouts at me "You lie!" about something I have said (and I know he is wrong), I'll be sure not to vote for him. I have got a revelation for you, Jeanetteq, and I'll type really slow – the President isn't Joe's boss, his constituents are; and sometimes he gets it right, and sometimes he doesn't, and they decide, every couple of years, whether he is worth keeping, or whether there is a more appropriate applicant willing to do the job. It doesn't work perfectly, but overall, it's a pretty cool system. Do yourself a favor and do a search on "separation of powers" on your search engine of choice because it looks like you slept through Civics.
I cannot believe the stupendous ignorance of Rep Wilson yelling out "you lie" to the POTUS on the floor of the house on national TV. He should be expelled from the house ASAP! I'm appalled and disgusted, as I hope his constituents are also…
Rep. Wilson: As Virginia Moore said, "True self-respect, being very different from false pride, leads inevitably to respecting others." I hope for your sake, and the sake of your constituents, that you will come to realize that your behavior on the floor of the Senate tonight was not befitting the position to which you were elected and showed a reprehensible lack of respect not only for the President of the United States, but for its citizens, as well.
To the two stupid drones that have already weighed in with their insipid dross all I can say is that Rep Wilson is expressing what all freedom loving Americans know – Obama is an empty suit, who is promulgating a Socialist agenda that is antithetical to our American way of living that has provided us with unbelievable blessings of bounty for over 200 years.
Obama lies. There is noway in hell that the government is going to run healthcare and not incur even greater unsustainable debt.
Obame is a liar and a turncoat friend. He fired his friend Van Johnson at midnight without so much as a mention. Some friend indeed.Obama lies. He talks about someone being denied chemo therapy and never mentions the horrendous health disasters that occur daily within the Veterans Administration.
Rep. Wilson is my new hero and I would wager that I am not alone by a long shot.
Rep. Wilson spoke the truth, but you can't handle it !
While you can claim freedom of speech it doesn't hide the fact that you have no repsect for our country or the people leading it. Disagreement with someone's views is one thing but disrespect is not a partisan principle it's something you and Representitive Wilson should have learned when young. Based on your behavior here how do you ever expect anyone to take your comments seriously? Have you no pride in this country? Do you really think that behavior is appropriate from an elected official? I guess it's just the way people are in South Carolina starting with the governor and right on through to the Representitives. Good luck with that attitude in life!
You know nothing of what you speak except fear and an ignorance of history. I hope you enjoy your weekends seeing that they were brought to you by socialists.
That somehow brings value to the discussion? There is some clever underlying meaning to this. Do you even know what socialism is? Clearly I am in opposition of big Government and handout programs but what does that have to do with disrespecting the President of the United States in front of the world? It's about decency man, nothing else.
I care very little about World opinion but I do care about a President that has the audacity to stand up in front of a joint session of Congress (called to save his butt) and lies through his teeth. I say that some things are far more important than your prissy sense of decorum.
When Obama lies he should be called on it !
Wilson your are a new American hero – Socialists, Communists and Statists be damned !
Sir, it would be interesting to know your views regarding the obvious mis-truths told to the American people by our last President regarding weapons of mass distruction in Iraq. Or how about the illegal tapping of American citizens phone lines.
I can see how low your standards really are and how easily you are impressed if Joe Wilson is your hero.
Etiquette trumping character? The nearly 2 million who marched on Washington last month – catch any of their sign's comments/slogans? What are so many seeing that marched that those in here aren't?
There seem to be more concerned with a liar being called on his lying – no matter who it is or where it's done – than there are those concerned with the substance of the accusation.
The stakes are much higher when the liar is the President – and – where better to call the President on a lie than in the People's House? Mr. Wilson warned us in the perfect way, at the perfect time.
It's NOT ok for illegal immigrants to be given free medical coverage when we will be fined heavily and then jailed if we still refuse (read: can't) buy the insurance.
Why not focus on defending our Constitution and Sovereignty instead of coddling Obama?
Your country needs you – awake!
Sir, I would expect a man of your stature would think before a knee-jerk reaction to what the President said. You were extremely rude to heckle the President as you did and those who agree with you show their ignorance.
God Bless America, we need it.BTW: The following is a fact, The House version of the health care bill explicitly prohibits spending any federal money to help illegal immigrants get health care coverage. Illegal immigrants could buy private health insurance, as many do now, but wouldn't get tax subsidies to help them. Still, Republicans say there are not sufficient citizenship verification requirements to ensure illegal immigrants are excluded from benefits they are not due.
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Have you no respect for the office of the President, Mr. Wilson? Have you no respect for the electoral process of the country? Or is it that you have no respect for the millions of Americans who cast their votes for Barack Obama?
Why is it that you think that you can disrepect the President of the United States of America anywhere but especially on national television? And by accusing him of lying when the bill currently before Congress clearly states that it explicitly prohibits illegal immigrants from obtaining health coverage. Doesn't that make you the liar, Mr. Wilson?
You, Mr. Wilson, are a disgrace to this country and the military. You should resign your seat immediately.
From one (former) registered Republican to another… "you behaved like an idiot"! If you had any "true" sense of honor, you would resign immediately. Your urgency to denounce any and all proposals not originating from your own party speaks to the very nail currently being driven into the coffin of the GOP. Your ideals are flawed, your policies outdated, and your philosophy is beyond stagnant. Now you have risen to a whole new level of LOW. You outburst was disingenuous, disrespectful, and certainly not the actions of a gentleman.
Your great state must be so proud!
All you lefty Moby posters start out with either telling everyone how you are a Republican or you were a Republican, or maybe you registered as a Republican in the primary so you could vote for RINO McCain, so you're not totally a liar. These days you can say that truthfully as well because it has been possible to be a liberal and be a Republican for a while now, just look at Lindsey Graham. Claiming to be a former conservative is something you don't see much of, though, and being a conservative is not synonymous with being a Republican, especially inside The Beltway.
Mr. Wilson,
I saw & heard what you did today to our Commander & Chief during his speech. I am appauled at what you did!!!!!
You and your party's constant dis-respect toward our president & general disagreeing with him on EVERY turn is not helping our country.
That's what's wrong with this country. People like you & your party that just want to be divisive.
You politicians don't do what's right for the country, for the people. You guys do what's right for you, your wallets, the lobbyists or your career. Your outburst showed that you can't be openminded about things & discuss them respectfully & calmly. Your just another divisive politician that can't see past his anger so that he can make a better place for us all.
Isn't that what your there for?From Rep. Wilson's Web Site:
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No wonder, must be flooded with messages. If his child yelled out the same thing to one of their teachers I suspect he would take out back ! I have never heard anything that rude in a joint session. This is so sad.
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Google cameras capture walk at Arlington cemetery
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The walk through Arlington National Cemetery on a beautiful October day was being captured by Google for anyone to experience with a few keystrokes or the swipe of a smartphone screen.
Google on Oct. 20 began its project to map the cemetery by collecting millions of photos and stitching them together to re-create the feeling of strolling the iconic burial ground of presidents and soldiers.
Online users will be able to zoom in close enough to read some grave markers. Or zoom out for panoramas of rolling hills dotted with thousands of white headstones. Or experience a 360-degree view of the resting place of America's service members.
Google's hired walker moved briskly among a light stream of visitors, carrying a backpack supporting 15 cameras encased in a green metal sphere the size of a basketball hovering above his head — a contraption known as a Trekker.
As he strolled by Section 27, where the first soldier was buried at Arlington in 1864, he stood out, a high-tech intruder among the neatly lined burial rows, where change is seen only in the new gravestones and the passing of the seasons.
"It's the Google guys again," said Bill Rose, visiting with his wife and 17-year-old daughter from North Salt Lake City, Utah. He said he wasn't surprised to see someone wearing the company's logos mapping a treasured landmark.
Cemetery officials hope the project will draw greater attention to one of the nation's most-visited destinations, particularly the areas of the cemetery that are often overlooked.
"It's great for people who may not be able to visit in person," Rose said. "Being at Arlington gives you the whole perspective of why we are Americans."
The effort is part of Google's quest to map every nook and cranny of the Earth, an endeavor that feeds the company's online advertising cash machine. With its car-mounted cameras, Google has captured images of just about every developed nation. It has gone to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and used a tricycle-mounted camera to navigate the stalls of Boston's Faneuil Hall market.
Its global picture-snapping frenzy has brought charges of privacy violations in some countries. Google said it will edit out or blur the faces of people captured in photos at the cemetery.
The images will be available to the public in May for the cemetery's 150th anniversary, honoring the day when Pvt. William Christman became the first soldier buried there, in Section 27.
"This is a tool to explore the cemetery from your home. It's not the same as being here, of course, but for so many who can't afford or are physically incapable of visiting, this is a great tool to get a feel for Arlington and explore its rich history," said Jennifer Lynch, a spokeswoman for the cemetery.
Arlington National Cemetery provides online access to photos of its 400,000 above- and below-ground burial sites. Google's images will be less granular and will capture only the gravestones close to where its Trekker passes, the company said. Given the 27 to 30 burials a day at the cemetery, Google won't be able to display new burials and seasonal changes. Lynch said cemetery officials will work with Google on updates.
But combined with the images used in its Street View software and those from a car that snapped photos along with the Trekker carried by Patrick Fennie on Oct. 20, users will eventually be able to feel as if they are walking to the Tomb of the Unknowns and up the stairs to the grave site of President John F. Kennedy.
"We want it to be a consistent and immersive experience so that it feels like you are there," said Deanna Yick, a Google spokeswoman.
For relatives and friends of service members buried there, visiting the cemetery can be an important part of grieving, experts say.
After Ami Neiberger-Miller's brother died in Iraq in 2007, she went to visit his grave in Section 60 every week. Now, the Purcellville, Va., resident visits every two months.
"When you talk to bereavement experts, they say that the people who are able to incorporate their lost ones in their lives in some way helps them to move forward. For some people, it can be visiting the burial sites," said Neiberger-Miller, a spokeswoman for Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, an organization that assists families that have lost a member in the military.
Some family members worry that the sites of relatives are neglected, with few visitors. So project staff members regularly check on the sites of service members whose families can't visit Arlington but want someone to deliver flowers or just physically be there.
"Google is only capturing a moment in time, so it's not like a family member can see how the site looks like on a given day," Neiberger-Miller said. "But it sounds like a great way for the many people who can't visit to get some sense of what it's like there."
Outside the Welcome Center, Carl and Rose Knight were planning their route around the 624-acre grounds. The Phoenix couple had saved for months to visit the cemetery for their 29th wedding anniversary.
Rose Knight, 54, used to work at Fort Meade in Maryland and regularly visited Arlington, her favorite destination in the region because of the "quiet and the pride."
They are spending some of their retirement savings on the visit, the first for Carl Knight.
Carl, a retired Army master sergeant, spotted the Google car.
"I can tell you that every veteran would love to see Arlington," he said. Looking toward the car, he added: "If that is another way, I look forward to it. I'm just getting started today."
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