Phoronix posted an article benchmarking GCC 8.1 today. These benchmarks compare GCC 8.1 vs GCC 7.3 on a variety of Ubuntu 18.04 systems. While I haven’t reproduced the exact comparisons on Ubuntu, in this article I make some notes about … Continue reading →
Phoronix posted an article about Clear linux benchmarks. The article was a three-way comparison between Clear Linux, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Fedora 28 on a variety of workloads. While I don’t have the same systems to compare, this posting characterizes … Continue reading →
On May 2nd, Phoronix published a benchmark comparison of 18.04 vs. 16.04 on multiple systems. It was intended to compare “out of the box” experiences. As the article notes, similarities and differences between these systems include gcc 7.3 vs. gcc … Continue reading →
As a followup to this post, I’ve implemented per-process capture of backend counters. I can now create a memory report from a process tree.
Continue reading →I’ve implemented the first level for topdown performance counter analysis and also done an initial analysis of ~15 workloads from recent Phoronix article. A logical next step is to expand the “backend bound” category to first separate CPU-bound vs. memory-bound … Continue reading →
AMD released new Ryzen processors today. Phoronix published an article that benchmarked these processors. Anand Tech also published a review. TechReport also wrote a review. The posting is *not* measured on these new processors. Instead, it looks at dissecting the … Continue reading →
There was an article posted on phoronix comparing several Linux servers including POWER9, Intel and AMD EPYX. Analysis for this article was minimal; so in this post I dug in a bit more on characteristics of the benchmarks of what … Continue reading →