Steve Kargl wrote:
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.
Seems a bit of special pleading to me. Actually outliers are
quite indicative. Often you don't care much if there is 5-10%
differen
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
> >
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
>
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
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 the
Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
They even give the impression that an open source plotting package is
specific to their compiler. Incidentally, I am so wedded to DISLIN,
for which the gfotran version is free, that I have never tried to
build plplot; has any body tried it?
Yes, I have. I help ma
Mikael and Steve,
> 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?
> I would be very surprised if they do.
>
I think
Steve Kargl wrote:
> Dear Absoft,
>
> Please fix the errors on your web page:
>
> http://www.absoft.com/Absoft_Windows_Compiler.htm
>
> The comparison chart is not only misleading, it is a down
> right lie! The last column is labeled "GNU g77 gfortran".
Dear Absoft,
Please fix the errors on your web page:
http://www.absoft.com/Absoft_Windows_Compiler.htm
The comparison chart is not only misleading, it is a down
right lie! The last column is labeled "GNU g77 gfortran".
g77 and gfortran are completely different compilers! gfortran
is
