Extra swapping when using gfortran 4.3-20061224 vs gfortran 4.2-20061211

[Toon Moene]

Toon Moene wrote:

> A run of HIRLAM for which the grid was carefully tuned (half a year ago) 
> to the RAM size of my laptop suddenly started to swap two weeks ago when 
> using gfortran 4.3 as the compiler.

I compiled a key routine using --param max-aliased-vops=1000 (as opposed 
to the default 50).  The result was much reduced stack usage.

So I'll first try to compile the whole enchilada (oh, it's with one l) 
with that option before probing the list again.

Cheers,

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