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Re: IA64 When?
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: c-areedy at erols dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:22:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: IA64 When?
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <3C94C7BC.A83032DB@erols.com>, Chris and Ann Reedy writes:
> As best as I can tell from my readings and research, GCC for the IA-64
> generates code that performs significantly worse than Intel's compiler,
> which I am taking as a benchmark of about how good today's IA-64
> compilers can do.
Depends heavily on your application. I've seen reports which show GCC is
very competitive on some code and less competitive on other code.
Ultimately what matters is performance on the applications you care about.
> 1. Am I correct in my interpretation that GCC's IA-64 performance has a
> long way to go?
Certainly true for all compilers targeting IA64.
jeff