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Re: Re: eCos arm-eabi GNU tools - test release 4.6.2-20120125
On 24.02.2012 20:37, Grant Edwards wrote:
[snip]
> [I was hoping the 3.2->4.6 change might produce noticably smaller or
> faster code. The size reduction is about 0.8%, and though I haven't
> done any extensive benchmarking, I haven't noticed any speed
> improvement yet.]
I haven't compared against 3.2.
Regarding speed, for Cortex-M3 target the Coremark test shows 12% speed
up of 4.6.2 against 4.3.2. But Cortex-M runs Thumb2 instruction set, the
picture may be different for ARM code.
Ilija
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