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Re: gfortran: the good news and the good news


Hans Horn wrote:

Toon Moene wrote:

Oops - he said "Cygwin/WinXP" - now *that's* Stone Age material ....

yup - its just plain 32 bit mode (don't I feel like a dinosaur now?).

Well, what you *should* feel is the pain that you don't get *another* 20 % performance increase when running your laptop in 64 bit mode (I've been using laptops like that - under Debian - since mid-2005).


64 bits gives you more integer and floating point registers, SSE instructions by default (you didn't enable them on your compilation), hence vectorization (at -O3), etc.

Cheers :-)

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