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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> Has anyone played around with the various "better known" compilers on |
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>> Gentoo? By "better known", I'm referring to gcc, Intel, llvm, pathscale. My |
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>> situation is that I've just started my PhD which requires me to do Finite |
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>> Element Analysis, FEA, and Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, and I want to |
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>> find the "best" compiler for the job. Before anyone says "Why bother, XXX |
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>> compiler is only 1 - 2% faster than gcc", in the context of the work I'm |
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>> doing this 1 - 2% IS important. |
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>> What I'm looking for is any feedback people may have on ability to compile |
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>> the Gentoo environment, the ability to change compilers easily, gcc-config |
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>> or flags in make.conf, as to whether the compiler/linker can use the |
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>> libraries as compiled by gcc on a "standard" gentoo install and so on. |
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>> Obviously there is much web trawling to be done to find what other people |
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>> are saying as well. |
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>> Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, |
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>> Andrew Lowe |
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> Think CUDA |
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> Mark |
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Sorry. Meant to include this reference: <$15 on Kindle. Reads great on |
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Kindle for PC. |
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http://www.amazon.com/CUDA-Example-Introduction-General-Purpose-ebook/dp/B003VYBOSE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1332160431&sr=8-4 |