Hey list, I was merely wondering if what I'm doing is right or if I fail at basic benchmarking: impulze@istari ~/dev/repositories/boost.svn/libs/spirit/benchmarks/qi $ g++ -O3 int_parser.cpp -I../../../../ -lrt && ./a.out /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Numbers to test: 1 digit number:-5 2 digit number:-54 3 digit number:541 4 digit number:-9604 5 digit number:-50733 6 digit number:-162974 7 digit number:-3133813 8 digit number:39950230 9 digit number:298344332 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// atoi_test: 5.0041852930 [s] {checksum: 13f6bf40} strtol_test: 5.4193627260 [s] {checksum: 13f6bf40} spirit_int_test: 2.2137115780 [s] {checksum: 13f6bf40} impulze@istari ~/dev/repositories/boost.svn/libs/spirit/benchmarks/qi $ g++ -O0 int_parser.cpp -I../../../../ -lrt && ./a.out /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Numbers to test: 1 digit number:5 2 digit number:-55 3 digit number:-978 4 digit number:2835 5 digit number:-78343 6 digit number:354806 7 digit number:9413631 8 digit number:-10824620 9 digit number:-369204759 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// atoi_test: 0.5902040060 [s] {checksum: e9ed193a} strtol_test: 0.6001010490 [s] {checksum: e9ed193a} spirit_int_test: 3.6562933090 [s] {checksum: e9ed193a} According to this, the optimized binary is 10 times slower wrt to the atoi/strtol implementation. I find that somehow quite hard to believe, is my toolchain broken, the testsuite or is it really true? The level of optimization doesn't matter btw, I get similar results with -O[,1,2] Any ideas are welcome. -- Mierswa, Daniel If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do. --- Linus Torvalds, comp.os.linux.advocacy, 1996/07/22