From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 17:48:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729141065675 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:48:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy9.bluehost.com (oproxy9.bluehost.com [IPv6:2605:dc00:100:2::a2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FCA58FC0A for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:48:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11206 invoked by uid 0); 20 Jun 2012 17:48:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy9.bluehost.com with SMTP; 20 Jun 2012 17:48:04 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.com; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=A6sh3Npi1imUOYgnNztl3Rygica1wkFh3HV2a+f4O/c=; b=gU6++xZvMBWiB/4yOlsL4+YL+5bMwYr1L9mafK9JTrggLi7B0fUK3I46kYunCTAed387yhTxHkca+UDiB7dwWkC59Bist1ZnKPiYrjLHPBkNHRy/5XW5lD0TQru6q0Mp; Received: from [24.8.180.234] (port=60004 helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1ShP0d-0002DH-BJ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:48:03 -0600 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:48:03 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120620174803.GE23095@hemlock.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4FE19BFC.7030304@gmail.com> <4FE1BDEC.1040705@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:48:04 -0000 On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 02:16:43PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >speed estimates. > > there are a difference between speed estimate and actual speed - and > i talk about the latter only. You're talking about poorly managed benchmarks that are imprecise and prone to fluctuation, applying only to very specific cases that are not necessarily very broadly representative, but you are talking about them as though they are perfectly representative of all cases. That is, at best, "speed estimates". > > > >Besides, NetBSD and OpenBSD has already selected and using pcc > >now. And they are fine with that one. > > their problem. No -- it's their solution. It would be a problem only if the previous statement said "and they are *not* fine with that one." -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]