On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:40:42PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote: > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Benchmark between Dell Poweredge 1950 And 1435 > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > > Renato S. Silva wrote: > >Hi > > > >What is the best compiler for AMD processors ?
Bill is exactly correct... the answer depends on you code. I have a bias to the PathScale compiler (available from QLogic, see www.pathscale.com) but some constructs are handled better by one compiler and not so well by other compilers. So benchmark your code and see what happens. Sometimes the important issue is code that is clean and standards compliant (thus portable and bug free). Working with a pair of quality compilers at the same time during development can help in this goal. It also, turns out that clean and standards compliant code tends to run faster more often than not. You might also look at Spec (www.spec.org) results for various AMD processor based systems to see what compiler hardware vendors found to be the best.... The footnotes are interesting. > >Thanks > >Renato > > At? > > For which language (java, c, c++, f90, or ???) -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new place to hang my hat :-) Now it got bought. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf