Re: [gentoo-user] Changing compilers

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>    Has anyone played around with the various "better known" compilers on
>> Gentoo? By "better known", I'm referring to gcc, Intel, llvm, pathscale. My
>> situation is that I've just started my PhD which requires me to do Finite
>> Element Analysis, FEA, and Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, and I want to
>> find the "best" compiler for the job. Before anyone says "Why bother, XXX
>> compiler is only 1 - 2% faster than gcc", in the context of the work I'm
>> doing this 1 - 2% IS important.
>>
>> What I'm looking for is any feedback people may have on ability to compile
>> the Gentoo environment, the ability to change compilers easily, gcc-config
>> or flags in make.conf, as to whether the compiler/linker can use the
>> libraries as compiled by gcc on a "standard" gentoo install and so on.
>> Obviously there is much web trawling to be done to find what other people
>> are saying as well.
>>
>> Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>>       Andrew Lowe
>>
>>
>
> Think CUDA

Yes. And as a convenient side-effect, it offers a great excuse to
upgrade your video card with some regularity. The performance of
mid-grade and high-grade video cards continues to improve rapidly.

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