"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message >
> And the gcc and Intel C++ compiler versions happen to be?
>
> I suppose they were more recent versions of the compiler used for the
> official version two years ago?  If so, your statement about optimisations
> happens to have no validity at all...
>
>     Thorsten
>

They might have no validity from a true benchmarking perspective. However
they illustrate that compiling the source with a recent compiler can improve
performance when compared to using the official binary distribution. While
it is helpfull to understand where exactly the performance gain is comming
from, to me that is secondary to the fact that there is a performance gain.

I can understand how you want to make sure benchmarks are really comparing
apples to apples.

-ross

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