Vladimir Makarov wrote:
People are complaining about GCC compilation speed and of course we should work on its speedup. But GCC is not so bad, for example SUN Studio compiler is almost 2 times slower than GCC.
Well, outside of these comparisons, I often completely flatten my colleagues (at home and abroad) because I compile the full 10^6 lines of Fortran code HIRLAM weather forecasting system in less than 5 minutes on my quad core PC (using make -j8). That's using -O3 (i.e., including vectorization).
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