On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > Think CUDA
Yes. And as a convenient side-effect, it offers a great excuse to upgrade your video card with some regularity. The performance of mid-grade and high-grade video cards continues to improve rapidly. -- :wq
