Nekonomicon - Current FOSS vs Olde IRIX... some uber-minimal benchmarking.

jimmer
From London, Ingerlund
Who joined Oct. 12, 2004, 3:54 p.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 8, 2014, 7:27 a.m...

Hi All,

Here's a gcc 4.7.1 compile of GraphicsMagick 1.3.20 (August 2014 release, default compilation settings: -O2) versus stock dmconvert.

Benchmarking of any kind is notoriously unreliable and I doubt anybody cares about IRIX and speed in any real world setting anymore, but the speed difference here seems quite 'real'.

Should we be looking into systematically replacing certain IRIX libs and utilities with current FOSS versions?

foetz
Moderator
Who joined April 14, 2003, 4:34 a.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 8, 2014, 11:54 a.m...

just use GraphicsMagick then

r-a-c.de

hamei
From over the rainbow
Who joined Feb. 24, 2004, 4:10 p.m.

Wrote the following at Nov. 9, 2014, 2:55 a.m...

jimmer wrote: Here's a gcc 4.7.1 compile of GraphicsMagick 1.3.20 (August 2014 release, default compilation settings: -O2) versus stock dmconvert.

Stepped in it this time, Bunky

The Graphics Magicke guys are shining examples for all : they go way out of their way to stamp out gcc-isms and make sure their code builds on anything. It's not a tiny little program, either ... straight through with Mipsy Pro. One pass, start to finish, woo hoo !!

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   urchin 1% gm -version
   

   GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20140831 Q16 http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
   

   Copyright (C) 2002-2014 GraphicsMagick Group.
   

   Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software.
   

   See http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/www/Copyright.html for details.
   

   

   Feature Support:
   

   Native Thread Safe       yes
   

   Large Files (> 32 bit)   yes
   

   Large Memory (> 32 bit)  no
   

   BZIP                     yes
   

   DPS                      no
   

   FlashPix                 no
   

   FreeType                 yes
   

   Ghostscript (Library)    no
   

   JBIG                     yes
   

   JPEG-2000                yes
   

   JPEG                     yes
   

   Little CMS               yes
   

   Loadable Modules         no
   

   OpenMP                   no
   

   PNG                      yes
   

   TIFF                     yes
   

   TRIO                     no
   

   UMEM                     no
   

   WebP                     no
   

   WMF                      yes
   

   X11                      yes
   

   XML                      yes
   

   ZLIB                     yes
   

   

   Host type: mips-sgi-irix6.5
   

   

   Configured using the command:
   

   ./configure  '--disable-openmp' '-without-webp' '--without-trio' '--with-quantum-depth=16' '--enable-shared'  '--prefix=/usr/nekoware'

The only thing you have to do is disable OpenMP. There is a conflict between pthreads and sproc threads. After some discussion with Mr Magicke, it appears that GM doesn't really use OpenMP for much anyhow. I've thought of enabling large memory some day to see what happens but never got a roundtoit ....

Benchmarking of any kind is notoriously unreliable and I doubt anybody cares about IRIX and speed in any real world setting anymore, but the speed difference here seems quite 'real'.

Let's find some el biggo graphics to convert and I'll run Roaring Boring Alice against your Redbum. I can put up two DAT tapes and a DVD-RAM disk ...

Oh wait ! Can throw in a mouse pad, too. Although she looks a little ... well, anyway ...

he said a girl named Patches was found ...

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Current FOSS vs Olde IRIX... some uber-minimal benchmarking.