At 05:32 AM 11/30/2004, Bertrand Meltz wrote:
>That was my first idea, but I thought I would get more response
>by asking the list.
>Apparently not.
At http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/ you will see a fair level of
effort devoted to testing gfortran on IA64. IMHO, this would be sufficient
to prefer that to g95. Going further out on a limb with my personal
opinion, gnu Fortran can't be expected to perform well without out-of-order
execution support. However, certain applications depend mainly on
libraries for performance.
As you chose not to clarify your remark about compatibility with g++, nor
to specify operating systems, it's difficult to respond to your
concerns. Current Intel linux compilers are specifically intended to work
compatibly with g++-3.2.x through 3.4.x. Earlier g++ versions were quite
unreliable on IA64. gfortran is packaged with g++-4.0. I would expect
(speaking only for myself) that Intel compilers would be extended to g++-4
compatibility a few months after the latter is released.
If you wish to use g95 or gfortran on Windows IA64, other than in the slow
32-bit compatibility mode, I expect you to face an unpredictably long
development process.
Tim Prince
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