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From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] GCC3.0 [Was; Webbrowser]
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Date: Thu,  6 Feb 2003 11:16:22 -0700
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, William K. Josephson wrote:

> It isn't uncommon to see Intel's compiler beat gcc by 30-40%
> and I haven't found any non-trivial examples where gcc beats
> the Microsoft or Intel compilers, although they may well
> exist.

Agree with most of your comments re gcc, but the fact is that
counterexamples do in fact exist. In fact I believe that LLNLs latest
LINPACK runs were better with gcc than the intel v7.0 compiler, which I
think surprised *everybody*.

ron