Note that which GCC you use has very little impact on Julia's performance since Julia code is generated by LLVM, regardless of how the C code is compiled.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Elliot Saba <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >
