On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG) wrote:

>
>> I just noticed this (from Ben) in the recent changelogs.  While I
>> admit that the savings of "not optimizing vsmoother when most users
>> don't use it" probably vastly exceed the costs of running a
>> non-optimized vsmoother... wouldn't making --disable-vsmoother the
>> default be a better option?  Then users can turn it on with
>> --enable-everything or --enable-vsmoother, and in that case we can
>> build it with full optimizations.
>
> I don't think so. the #pragma is intel-specific, so it should unaffect you
> if you are using anything other than icc.  plus, i'd rather not disable
> genuine features based on a bug in a single compiler.

Wait, there's a bug in icc?  I didn't realize we were getting bad
output from vsmoother; I just assumed that you'd turned off vsmoother
optimization because it was excruciatingly slow.  ;-)
---
Roy

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