Re: tlug: Re: multi-processor linux configuration ?

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Cliff Miller wrote:

> You may want to consider which Linux system to use based upon the
> compiler. TurboLinux 2.0 uses gcc. TurboLinux 3.0 will use egcs, which
> handles C++ better and delivers faster code by as much as 25%.

C/C++ do not parallelize very well.  If they're really serious about
parallel programming on linux, they'd be better off doing their work in
fortran (which parallelizes very well) and purchasing a decent compiler
like PGI (which pretty much automagically groks MPI).

-- Chris

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