Re: [gentoo-user] Changing compilers

[Michael Mol]

FEA jobs can be parallelized, right? Take a hard look at CUDA and OpenCL.

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On Mar 19, 2012 1:29 AM, "Andrew Lowe" <agl@×××××××.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>    Has anyone played around with the various "better known" compilers on
> Gentoo? By "better known", I'm referring to gcc, Intel, llvm, pathscale. My
> situation is that I've just started my PhD which requires me to do Finite
> Element Analysis, FEA, and Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, and I want to
> find the "best" compiler for the job. Before anyone says "Why bother, XXX
> compiler is only 1 - 2% faster than gcc", in the context of the work I'm
> doing this 1 - 2% IS important.
>
> What I'm looking for is any feedback people may have on ability to compile
> the Gentoo environment, the ability to change compilers easily, gcc-config
> or flags in make.conf, as to whether the compiler/linker can use the
> libraries as compiled by gcc on a "standard" gentoo install and so on.
> Obviously there is much web trawling to be done to find what other people
> are saying as well.
>
> Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>       Andrew Lowe
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