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Yes, you can come up with synthetic benchmarks that will show improved
performance - but how much does it mean in real life?  Many of the
performance related GCC patches deal with micro-optimizations, where
it is difficult for me to balance the performance benefit for a few
exotic corner-cases of code against the risk of introducing new bugs
by little tested code.  And how much can benchmarks be trusted?  Even
reputable organizations are known to come up with numbers that are
primarily driven by marketing aspects, see for example [1].

Unless proven otherwise I doubt that a specific e500mc configuration
of the ELDK would have measurable performance advantages in most
application environments.

[1] http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Linaro-trickst-beim-Benchmarken-1616514.html

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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