In case anyone is interested, here are the improvements we see in the Polyhedron 2005 fortran benchmarks in the various gcc releases in fink (as measured on a MacPro).
gcc release gcc 4.2.4 gcc 4.3.3 gcc 4.4-pre gcc 4.3.3/ gcc 4.4-pre/ gcc 4.2.4 gcc 4.2.4 ac 15.32 13.04 12.65 0.851 0.826 aermod 22.96 26.65 25.52 1.161 1.111 air 8.15 7.58 7.10 0.930 0.871 capacita 52.16 52.45 49.56 1.006 0.950 channel 5.17 3.39 1.81 0.656 0.350 doduc 34.43 34.89 35.28 1.013 1.025 fatigue 12.57 10.92 10.13 0.869 0.806 gas_dyn 13.59 7.68 7.63 0.565 0.561 induct 28.61 48.46 14.88 1.694 0.520 linpk 15.46 15.48 15.50 1.001 1.003 mdbx 12.41 12.94 12.36 1.043 0.996 nf 27.08 27.25 25.50 1.006 0.942 protein 41.61 41.18 39.12 0.990 0.940 rnflow 35.37 32.58 30.68 0.921 0.867 test_fpu 11.94 10.79 10.50 0.904 0.879 tfft 2.13 2.11 2.08 0.991 0.977 There are also some improvements to be had by compiling in gcc44 with -fgraphite-identity -floop-block in certain cases (20% or so). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel