On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.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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