I wrote: I'm now going to try to compile HIRLAM with 32 bit pointers.
And ... here are the results: With 64-bit pointers: 2685 out of 9799 loops vectorized. With 32-bit pointers: 3269 out of 8854 loops vectorized. Why there are more loops in the 64-bit case is beyond my understanding - it's the same code base as I worked on with the 32-bit compilation ... Kind regards, -- Toon Moene - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - phone: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands A maintainer of GNU Fortran 95: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/