To compile mpfrbench, simply do: $ make mpfrbench To run it: $ ./mpfrbench On a typical computer, it should take around 12 minutes. The final output looks like (here on a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz with GCC 4.9.3, and --with-gmp-build=gmp-6.0.0), svn revision 9669: GMP : 6.0.0 MPFR : 3.2.0-dev GMP compiler : gcc -std=gnu99 GMP flags : -O2 -pedantic -fomit-frame-pointer -m64 -mtune=core2 -march=core2 score for mul : 1434798 score for add : 6419546 score for sub : 6228906 score for div : 698843 group score Arith : 2516353 score for sqrt : 550492 score for exp : 26517 score for log : 20034 score for cos : 28853 score for sin : 23044 score for acos : 7639 score for asin : 8010 group score Special : 27501 global score : 1076