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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:39:38 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Tim Newsham wrote:

> > And you know this ... how?
> 
> I don't, entirely.  I'm partially asking about the quality of
> the compiler code (perhaps indirectly).

Ah. You really need to take compiler performance app-by-app. We've found 
on some codes that gcc does better than Intel 7.0 (!). It's just very hard 
to draw general conclusions about how well code produced by a given 
compiler will run.

ron