Coyote Gulch: Linux Number Crunching

“Ah, benchmarking–many a cold winter’s night has been warmed by
the glow of heated newsgroup debates and flaming mailing lists.

“I started writing this benchmark article with a singular goal:
understanding how to get the most floating-point performance from
my Intel-architecture Linux systems. Then the question arose of
‘Which programming language should I use?’; shortly thereafter, I
asked myself ‘And whose compiler should I use?’ And, of course, I
was also curious about performance on hyperthreaded and
multiprocessor computers…

“…hence this article, which covers more bases than the New
York Yankees….”

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