g77 Help Wanted?

[Toon Moene]

Antony Spyropoulos wrote:

> Running a LAPACK's benchmark (1000d.f) on two machines:

> CASE 2:
> Machine 1 (f77 -O ) : 23 Mflops
> Machine 2 (f77 -O) : 26.6 Mflops

> Is this paradox (PII is faster!! than PIII in case 2) due to the fuct
> that the curent fortan compiler
> does not exploits the architecture of PIII?

Well, at the very least it's true that egcs-1.1.2 predates the Pentium
III; one of the things you could try is download and build gcc-2.95.2
and run the benchmark using that compiler.

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