Hello Federico, I don't think that we are using any features in Julia that rely on GCC newer than 4.8. Although it is possible that the newer GCC releases will know new tricks and can generate slightly faster/more efficient code, I don't think there is a compelling reason to use one over the other. -E
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Federico Calboli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am using gfortran from GCC: > > GNU Fortran (Homebrew gcc49 4.9.3 --with-fortran) 4.9.3 > > but I am aware GCC 4.9 is not the latest. I was wondering whether it > would be useful to move up to GCC 5.2.x, to future proof myself -- when > Julia 0.4 becomes the new 'stable' I plan to remove my 0.3 and rebuild from > scratch, so I would have a perfect moment to switch to a different GCC... > > Any ideas? > > Cheers > > F >
