From: "Bernard Fouché" <bernard.fouche@kuantic.com>
To: ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F107DE4.7080706@kuantic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F106345.4080902@siva.com.mk>
Le 13/01/2012 18:00, Ilija Kocho a écrit :
>
> Our GCC 4.3.2 is ageing and perhaps we should consider an upgrade.
> My motive is it's lacking of support for Cortex-M4 SIMD (aka DSP) and
> FPU instructions, but I think that other architectures shall gain from
> newer compiler too. I have made some signal processing tests with GCC
> 4.6.2 against current eCos compiler and they show performance gain
> even with Cortex-M3 setting, though moderate. Performance is
> considerable when Cortex-M4 setting is selected and is tremendous, as
> expected, when SIMD are used. Recently introduced Cortex-M products
> with FPU (Kinetis K70, K61, STM32F4) will further emphasise the benefit.
>
That sounds good! Did you try link time optimization ? I'm curious what
kind of gain it could bring with a real world app. eCos seems to fit
perfectly for such an optimization, there is no shared lib and at link
time everythink is visible to the linker.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 17:01 Ilija Kocho
2012-01-13 18:54 ` Bernard Fouché [this message]
2012-01-13 19:39 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-13 19:09 ` Frank Pagliughi
2012-01-13 19:45 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-14 10:22 ` John Dallaway
2012-01-14 16:02 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-15 17:36 ` Grant Edwards
2012-01-15 18:42 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-15 21:39 ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-01-23 1:01 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-15 22:21 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23 1:07 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-15 22:21 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-16 15:20 ` Grant Edwards
2012-01-16 20:43 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-16 21:11 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-17 9:58 ` Bernard Fouché
2012-01-17 10:38 ` Paul Beskeen
2012-01-17 12:28 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-23 0:59 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-14 16:25 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23 1:13 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-23 18:40 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23 19:29 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-25 12:30 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-01-25 20:59 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-26 13:36 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-01-26 20:18 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-02-13 22:02 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing [Was Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6] Ilija Kocho
2012-02-20 16:00 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-02-20 20:45 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-02 16:36 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-03 13:32 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-04 0:10 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-04 17:49 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-04 23:08 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-04 19:37 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing John Dallaway
2012-03-04 23:47 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-05 8:00 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 13:51 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 11:58 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-07 13:01 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-07 13:39 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 13:13 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-12 16:43 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-16 15:05 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-08 17:28 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-09 9:39 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-09 17:15 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-10 17:16 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-12 16:12 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-13 13:31 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-13 14:16 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-13 17:47 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-15 8:50 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-17 14:50 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-17 20:58 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-17 16:44 ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-03-18 19:10 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.3-20120315 [Was Re: eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing] Ilija Kocho
2012-04-04 12:57 ` Lambrecht Jürgen
2012-04-04 13:18 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-05-31 8:42 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.3-20120315 and link time optimization Bernard Fouché
2012-03-05 8:30 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-05 8:56 ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-05 9:50 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-05 9:55 ` Anders Montonen
2012-03-05 14:20 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-05 10:16 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-05 12:56 ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-03 12:58 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing [Was Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6] Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-17 9:37 ` Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6 Tomas Frydrych
2012-01-17 16:10 ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-01-17 16:25 ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-01-17 16:45 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-20 14:42 ` Frank Pagliughi
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