Pro64-based GPLed compiler

[Joost VandeVondele]

>> Their web pages primarily talk about the 64-bit performance on AMD
>> systems.  Maybe they aren't well tuned for 32-bit performance and/or
>> Intel parts.  Anyways, from what Daniel Berlin mentioned, it may be 
that
>> the tree-ssa stuff in gcc4.x has negated much of their earlier 
advantage.

>I would not be surprised if they kick the crap out of us when it comes
>to numerical fortran or something, but for regular c code, i'd not
>expect more than 10-20% difference, max.

At least there is some comparison for fortran (amd,intel,32,64)

http://www.polyhedron.co.uk/compare/linux/f77bench_AMD.html
http://www.polyhedron.co.uk/compare/linux/f77bench_p4.html
http://www.polyhedron.co.uk/compare/linux/f90bench_AMD.html
http://www.polyhedron.co.uk/compare/linux/f90bench_p4.html

there's no g77 on te first graph and f90 graphs, but NAG translates 
fortran to C and uses gcc for code generation, and as it is faster than 
g77 in f77bench_p4, that is a worthwhile comparison.

Cheers,

Joost