[9fans] 8c vs. gcc shootout

[anothy@cosym.net]

i know little of benchmarking, but i'm not clear on how we
could build this test and have the results really be very
meaningfull. that is, how does one account for things like
the differing header files? would using, say, Inferno's lib9.h
and friends in both cases be reasonable? how 'bout the
underlying OS's differences, like syscall time or differences
in the scheduler? are they considered negligable (if we're
dealing with times on the order of a minute, i'd certainly
hope so)? should we be building something to run on the
raw hardware?

i've got Plan 9 and FreeBSD w/ GCC running on identical
hardware. if someone could provide me with (or point me
at) suitable code to run the compile and execute tests on,
i'd be happy to do so.

how significant are the penalties imposed by using APE
likely to be? in one respect, it'd be nice to use identical
code, but then GCC has the advantage of running it its
native environment, while 8c has to emulate.
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