On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Mikael Morin wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > > Dear Absoft, > > > > Please fix the errors on your web page: > > > > http://www.absoft.com/Absoft_Windows_Compiler.htm > > > Do you really think they will change their webpage to one that > explicitly states that their compiler has a competitor with comparable > features, which is at least as fast, supports more platforms and is > available for free?
Hopefully, the answer is yes. I've exchanged a few emails with an Absoft employee, yesterday. Seems the marketing department may have recycled old info (e.g., they appear to be unaware that g77 was removed from GCC over 4 years ago). As pault suggests, Absoft is trying to convey that it is a total integrated package with an IDE, graphical debugger, additional libraries, etc. With regard to the top 10% performance, Absoft is simply comparing the overall mean performance numbers from the Polyhedron Benchmark. gfortran will never look good by that metric because there are at least 2 programs that would benefit from in-lining non-contained subprograms and intraprocedural optimization. gfortran doesn't do these, yet. -- Steve
