On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:47:07AM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote: > Steve Kargl 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 ...
Not if you don't include the standard deviation and/or variance. With only 16 samples, having 2 rather large outlier points will skew the mean. Additionally, they are comparing the compiler against gfortran 4.1.2. There have been a few releases and a few improvements since 4.1.2 was released. -- Steve
