Re: [9fans] grid computing -- high performance?

[Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>]

> > Do people use the plan 9 compilers?  It doesn't seem like the p9 compilers
> > are suited for high performance number crunching (not that I think they
> > are bad compilers).
>
> And you know this ... how?

I don't, entirely.  I'm partially asking about the quality of
the compiler code (perhaps indirectly).

The compiler implementation paper mentioned that the compilers emit
"medium quality" code. I assume that they were targetted towards their
purpose -- system code.  Because of these factors, I assume (and that is
all it is, an assumption) that optimizations that would be important for
numerical computation but not very important for system programming didn't
receive much attention.  Things like blocking, loop swapping, instruction
reordering, cache hints, combining operations into SIMD instructions, etc.
Is this not the case?

I'm not trying to imply that plan 9 is not a good system, or that
the compilers are poorly written.  I'm just trying to learn more
about the system.

> ron

Tim N.