Rocket.txt

Easier to maintain here, so:

Some results of "rocket 0.00001 159.0": home.powertech.no/sletner/rocket.tar

See gcc --target-help for some system specific flags.

Note that this program wasn't really intended to be a benchmark, but it's a typical piece of code that seems CPU bound enough to provide a good idea of what the CPU can really do. If it reports a final altitude of 0.00m, you're doing it wrong.

        PC (ghostn9e)
1.38s   Intel Q6600 running Linux 2.6.24
        gcc -O3 -funroll-loops -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funsafe-math-optimizations
          -m128bit-long-double

        PC (plan9)
1.46s   AMD64 X2 4200+ running Linux 2.6.22-14-generic 32 bit
        gcc -O3 -funroll-loops -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3  -funsafe-math-optimizations

        PC (fernandotcl)
2.28s   AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ @ 1.6GHz 2.6.24-16-generic 32-bit
        gcc -03 -finline -funroll-loops -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3

        PC (jontow)
4.7s    Intel Core2duo 1.6ghz running Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 32-bit
        gcc -funroll-loops -mtune=i686 -O3 -finline

        Apple PowerBook G4 12" (Vagabond)
5.5s    Apple G4 1.0 GHz running MacOS X 10.4.11
        gcc -funroll-loops -mtune=powerpc -m32 -O3

        IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (plan9)
6.89s   POWER3 400 MHz running AIX 5.3 64 bit
        gcc -mtune=power3 -mcpu=power3 -O3 -funroll-loops

        Weird rackmountable PC (jontow)
8.0s    Pentium 3/855 running FreeBSD 6.2
        gcc -O3 -mtune=i686 -funroll-loops -finline -mmmx -msse

        Dell PowerEdge somethingorother tower (jontow)
10.3s   Pentium 3/550mhz running FreeBSD 6.3
        gcc -O3 -mtune=i686 -funroll-loops -finline -mmmx -msse

        Digital Personal Workstation 500au (Vagabond)
10.57s  DEC Alpha EV56 500 MHz running NetBSD 4.0
        gcc -O3 -mcpu=ev56 -funroll-loops -mno-soft-float

        SGI Octane (Vagabond)
10.8s   MIPS R12000 300 MHz running IRIX64 6.5.29
        gcc ...

        Sun Ultra 80 (Vagabond)
13.8s   Sun UltraSparc-IIi 450 MHz running Solaris 10
        gcc -funroll-loops -mcpu=ultrasparc -O3

        Sun Netra T1/105 (jontow)
19.5s   Sun UltraSPARC-IIi 440 MHz running OpenBSD 4.2 64 bit
        gcc -O3 -mcpu=v9 -mtune=ultrasparc -funroll-loops

        Sun Ultra 10 (jontow)
31.3s   Sun UltraSPARC-IIi 300 MHz running OpenBSD 4.2 64 bit
        gcc -O3 -mcpu=v9 -mtune=ultrasparc -funroll-loops

        Sun SparcStation 10 (jontow)
81.1s   Sun Sun4m(??) 60 MHz running NetBSD 4.0
        gcc -funroll-loops -mcpu=v7 -O3

        Sun SparcStation 5 (jontow)
4m 49s  Sun Sun4m 70mhz running NetBSD 2.1
        gcc -funroll-loops -mcpu=v7 -O3