We're planning to wait until Polyhedron post their results. That way the
benchmarking will have been done by an independent entity.
--
Bob Runyan
Lahey Computer Systems
http://www.lahey.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Herman L. Ammon <[log in to unmask]>
To: Bob Runyan <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>;
<[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: [LF] ANNOUNCE: Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran95 for Linux
> Hello,
>
> Certainly, we'd all like to have a blazing compiler. But the REAL issue,
in my
> view, is the speed of execution. Any data?
>
> Herman
>
>
> Bob Runyan wrote:
>
> > Alois Steindl wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > it might be interesting to hear something about the relation of this
> > > product with the recently released Fujitsu Fortran compiler.
> > >
> > > Since there are at least 3 F9x compilers for Intel-Linux available:
> > > Has anyone tried to perform some benchmarks?
> > > I did some tests for the NAGware and Fujitsu compiler with the
> > > f90bench package from
> > > http://www.polyhedron.co.uk and observed quite differing results. My
> > > overall impression was that the Fortran compilers for Linux are rather
> > > slow compared to the Windows compilers (DVF6 and Lahey) (sometimes by
a
> > > factor 3 or more).
> >
> > The compiler that is in the Lahey/Fujitsu Linux Express package and the
one
> > that is in the Fujitsu package are the same. The products differ in
command
> > line syntax for the more obscure switches (they have different drivers),
> > documentation, bundled tools, price, support terms, packaging, etc.
> >
> > I believe that Polyhedron is planning to publish benchmark results for
Intel
> > Linux compilers. I'm surprised to hear that you are getting slower
results
> > on Linux. We have not run extensive benchmarks yet versus our Windows
> > products, but we've had nothing but good reports on performance in our
beta
> > testing. Can you send me your results, your machine configuration, and
the
> > switch settings you used?
> >
> > --
> > Bob Runyan
> > Lahey Computer Systems
> > http://www.lahey.com
>
>
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