Operations

We have developed several benchmarks that give us a good idea of the performance of typical compiler operations. Since these operations are the basis of many programs, it makes sense to measure their performance and attempt to improve upon it.

We measure the following types of operations.

• Math Operations
• Buffer Operations
• Memory Allocation Operations

Math Operations

The math timings measure the execution speed of 16-bit signed and unsigned integer operations, 32-bit signed and unsigned integer operations, and 32-bit floating-point operations.

Buffer Operations

The buffer operation benchmarks measure the execution speed of the memset, memcpy, and memmove standard library routines.

Memory Allocation Operations

The memory allocation timings measure the execution speed of malloc and free using fixed and random sized blocks.