<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Comparing Compilers</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"> <link rel="home" href="../../index.html" title="Math Toolkit"> <link rel="up" href="../perf.html" title="Performance"> <link rel="prev" href="getting_best.html" title="Getting the Best Performance from this Library"> <link rel="next" href="tuning.html" title="Performance Tuning Macros"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="getting_best.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../perf.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="tuning.html"><img src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="math_toolkit.perf.comp_compilers"></a><a class="link" href="comp_compilers.html" title="Comparing Compilers"> Comparing Compilers</a> </h3></div></div></div> <p> After a good choice of build settings the next most important thing you can do, is choose your compiler - and the standard C library it sits on top of - very carefully. GCC-3.x in particular has been found to be particularly bad at inlining code, and performing the kinds of high level transformations that good C++ performance demands (thankfully GCC-4.x is somewhat better in this respect). </p> <div class="table"> <a name="id1276908"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 48. Performance Comparison of Various Windows Compilers</b></p> <div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="Performance Comparison of Various Windows Compilers"> <colgroup> <col> <col> <col> <col> </colgroup> <thead><tr> <th> <p> Function </p> </th> <th> <p> Intel C++ 10.0 </p> <p> ( /Ox /Qipo /QxN ) </p> </th> <th> <p> Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 </p> <p> ( /Ox /arch:SSE2 ) </p> </th> <th> <p> Cygwin G++ 3.4 </p> <p> ( /O3 ) </p> </th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../special/sf_erf/error_function.html" title="Error Functions">erf</a> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(4.118e-008s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(1.483e-007s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>3.24</p> <p> </p> <p>(1.336e-007s)</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../special/sf_erf/error_inv.html" title="Error Function Inverses">erf_inv</a> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(4.439e-008s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(4.888e-007s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>7.88</p> <p> </p> <p>(3.500e-007s)</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../special/sf_beta/ibeta_function.html" title="Incomplete Beta Functions">ibeta</a> and <a class="link" href="../special/sf_beta/ibeta_function.html" title="Incomplete Beta Functions">ibetac</a> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(1.631e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>1.14</p> <p> </p> <p>(1.852e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>3.05</p> <p> </p> <p>(4.975e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../special/sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibeta_inv</a> and <a class="link" href="../special/sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibetac_inv</a> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(6.133e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>1.19</p> <p> </p> <p>(7.311e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>2.60</p> <p> </p> <p>(1.597e-005s)</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../special/sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibeta_inva</a>, <a class="link" href="../special/sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibetac_inva</a>, <a class="link" href="../special/sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibeta_invb</a> and <a class="link" href="../special/sf_beta/ibeta_inv_function.html" title="The Incomplete Beta Function Inverses">ibetac_invb</a> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(2.453e-005s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>1.16</p> <p> </p> <p>(2.847e-005s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>2.83</p> <p> </p> <p>(6.947e-005s)</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../special/sf_gamma/igamma.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Functions">gamma_p</a> and <a class="link" href="../special/sf_gamma/igamma.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Functions">gamma_q</a> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(6.735e-007s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>1.41</p> <p> </p> <p>(9.504e-007s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>2.78</p> <p> </p> <p>(1.872e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../special/sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_p_inv</a> and <a class="link" href="../special/sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_q_inv</a> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(2.637e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>1.38</p> <p> </p> <p>(3.631e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>3.31</p> <p> </p> <p>(8.736e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> <a class="link" href="../special/sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_p_inva</a> and <a class="link" href="../special/sf_gamma/igamma_inv.html" title="Incomplete Gamma Function Inverses">gamma_q_inva</a> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p><span class="bold"><strong>1.00</strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p>(7.716e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> </p> <p>1.29</p> <p> </p> <p>(9.982e-006s)</p> <p> </p> </td> <td> <p> 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