From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9808 invoked by alias); 15 Mar 2004 19:00:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9780 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2004 19:00:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO book.moene.indiv.nluug.nl) (195.109.255.217) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2004 19:00:19 -0000 Received: from local ([127.0.0.1] helo=moene.indiv.nluug.nl) by book.moene.indiv.nluug.nl with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1B2xPW-00013D-00; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:06:02 +0100 Message-ID: <4055FE85.3000101@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:00:00 -0000 From: Toon Moene Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, NL User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031110 Debian/1.5-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Sayle CC: Scott Robert Ladd , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00733.txt.bz2 Roger Sayle wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > >>Consider the following program, compiled and run on a Pentium 4 >>(Northwood) system: >> >> #include > > For a number of benchmarks, just this first line of source code above > is enough to loose the race for GCC against Intel when compiling on Linux. Indeed - and that's the basic reason why you should write this kind of software in Fortran: No pesky header files destroying your carefully optimized code .... [ OK, I couldn't resist :-) :-) ] -- Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html GNU Fortran 95: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ (under construction)