1. rewrite apps in plan 9 c. The Plan 9 C compiler is fine for what we do on Plan 9. For scientific apps, it's not that great a compiler. The IBM compilers know all the tricks. The effort to get Plan 9 C up to the standards of XLC is mind-boggling. And XLF? We're not going to write a Fortran compiler from scratch.
Can you elaborate here? What tricks can the IBM compilers use that the Plan 9 ones can't? Are we talking optimization? What is XLC and where can I find more information on the standard? D
