Robert Dewar wrote: >> 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. > overall mean performance seems a perfectly fair measure I would say ... I agree. Against the "will never do" we should do something in 4.5 - the mutiple-decl-per-function problem really should to be fixed; cf. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2008-05/msg00247.html and (predating that) http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2008-02/msg00005.html
Tobias
