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Re: "Experimental" features in releases
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
We use to call this "benchmarketing"
I don't see why GNU would want to do that for anything.
Because (that's unfortunate, agreed) GCC does need some marketing.
Unfortunately people compare GCC with icc (or other compilers) using
SPEC,
Hmmm, that's not my experience (note that SWIM is Fortran and is listed
as a primordial Weather Forecasting Benchmark - I could explain why, but
then I have to produce quite a bit of TeX ;-)
What people in my environment do is compare ifc <whatever options they
got from their coworkers> against gfortran -O2.
This will never fly, of course.
The first thing I teach them is to add -ffast-math -funroll-loops.
Oh, and last week taught *me* to also suggest -msse2 -mfpmath=sse for
those using Intel processors (of course, I use Debian AMD64 testing, so
for me that's the default :-)
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