[pooma-dev] Good News. Intel's ICC 8.0 Beta looks promising, now.

[Richard Guenther]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jeffrey D. Oldham wrote:

> Richard Guenther wrote:
> > With the following gcc3.3 patch applied
> > http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/gcc/leafify-3.3-2
> > or leafify-3.4-2 for mainline, I get very good results with gcc3.3.
>
> Have you asked the gcc community to accept this leafify inlining idea?
> There is usually a lot of resistance to adding extentions to gcc since
> they tend to cause complications from non-orthogonality with other
> language features.

I just bugged the gcc list about this issue, maybe experienced users of
scientific C++ codes want to comment. Also maybe someone knows other
precedence than the NEC C++ compiler for a similar language extension.

The post is at
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-06/msg00308.html

Thanks,

Richard.