On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 09:12 -0500, Steve Snyder wrote: > On Monday 16 August 2004 8:25 am, Horvath Andras wrote: > > Without any change in arguments of gcc calls I get 2% speed improvement > > in our code. (Mainly floating point calculations.) Now I will try > > whether some special command line switches work better in 3.4.1. > > It you're building for a x86 platform you might also want to try Intel's > compiler, ICC. It's a very good compiler overall, but it's main > strength, relative to GCC, is floating-point performance. For completeness, there are also the PathScale and Portland Group compilers. The PathScale compiler has the best published AMD64 performance. <b