[Openmp-dev] initial clang-omp/openmp benchmarking

[Jack Howarth]

    I've done some initial benchmarking of openmp performance using the
clang compiler from our fink llvm34-3.4.1-0e packaging which has the
current openmp trunk svn built against the llvm/compiler-rt/clang 3.4.1
with a back port of current clang-omp from github applied. The results for
the heated_plate_openmp.c demo code compiled and run with the
heated_plate_gcc.sh shell script revealed some interesting results. The
demo code is run at one, two and four OMP processes. Ratioing these
timings to the one OMP process timing shows the following on a 16-core
MacPro on darwin13…

1:1.90:3.31 for FSF gcc 4.8.3

1:1.90:3.30 for FSF gcc 4.9.0

1:1.99:3.71 for clang 3.4.1 with openmp and merged clang-omp

this compares to the results on a 24-core Fedora 15 linux box

1:1.99:3.92 for FSF gcc 4.6.3

1:1.99:3.93 for FSF gcc 4.8 branch svn

I've filed https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61333 on the
reduced performance of gomp on darwin compared to iomp5 on darwin and
gomp on linux. Their response was that darwin's use of pthread_mutex calls
rather than futex was the cause in gomp and that we should be using linux.
    While the results for iomp5 are far better on darwin than those for
gomp on darwin, we still are lagging behind the performance of gomp using
futex on linux. FYI, the heated_plate_openmp.c and heated_plate_gcc.sh
are attached to PR 61333.
            Jack
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