From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QatKe-0004xw-3h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:41:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52A061C111; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.32]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA521C111 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.36]) by qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0hbr1h0020mlR8UA3hcPQX; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:36:23 +0000 Received: from ajax ([24.11.47.14]) by omta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 0hcU1h00G0JMh7c8XhcUYz; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:36:29 +0000 Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:36:22 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Possible Math Problem - Request For Verification Message-Id: <20110626133622.f775dc03.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <1467080.8kkPtjPYV0@localhost> References: <20110625134111.5c6b08dd.frank.peters@comcast.net> <1467080.8kkPtjPYV0@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 71322cf802b9c5c7a1b9261f12aeae38 On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:04:48 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > btw, have you tried ekopath? The compiler entered portage shortly after its > open sourcing? Maybe it is more correct. According to some it is faster than > gcc when it comes to math heavy workloads. > -- I took a look at it in the past and it was proprietary. But looking again I see that it is in portage as a binary package. I'll check it out for sure. The Intel compiler was always an interest of mine but it can run on only Gentoo multilib. Then there is LLVM which I am not sure about. I'll have to research this one. Frank Peters