The C Compiler Benchmark                      (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the  Free Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the License,  or
(at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.

The C Compiler Benchmark builds a simple benchmark program using various
compiler options and tries to find the combination of options which results
in the best performance on your system.

Note: Some compiler options are very application specific and may slow down
some applications - even if this benchmark runs faster with (or without) this
options. This program can help you finding the optimal compiler options for
your system - but it's no replacement for hand-testing some stuff.

Warning: Some compiler options like -fomit-frame-pointers can break
applications which do depend on special compiler behavior. Use them on your
own risk and read the compiler documentation if you are not sure about the
meaning of some options.

Using the C Compiler Benchmark
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Simply type './ccbench -new gcc' and let the benchmark run. Read the ccbench
script for details on how to add additional compiler options to the benchmark
or how to hand-tune what the benchmark is doing.