> Yes, that is known problem for -O0. The old allocator does not use global > allocator at -O0, IRA is used always even for -O0. The correct comparison > would be at -O2.
Well, I guess it depends on what you understand by "correct". I guess to users, the correct comparison is whatever they are using most often. So, even though I'm not technically competent to help you deciding which choice is the better, I might still want to say that: > o Or just ignore this. seems certainly a bad option to me. I'll run some more Fortran tests (both compilation timings and runtime performance with various options) during the next few days, and I'll post a summary to the list later on. Thanks for your quick reply, FX -- FX Coudert http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uccafco/