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>>>>> In article <9301182148.AA08057@x4u.desy.de>, marcus@x4u.desy.de (Marcus Speh) writes:

MS> Another help came from RMS (thanks a lot!) who advises to commission
MS> a port of GCC employing an (assumed) compatibility between the Convex
MS> and the Cray.

What about vectorization?  The last time I tried using gcc on the Convex
to compile C++ code (gcc-2.2.2, I think) it produced working but
NON-VECTORIZED code.  It ran at about the same speed as gcc compiled
code on a sparcstation.

For these reasons, I use gcc-2.x on Sparcs (my development environment
and short production runs) and Cray's cfront port on the Cray for
production runs.  A vectorizing gcc for Convex and Cray would be nice,
but I wonder if even $50,000 of effort would suffice, and if it would
be worthwhile considering the small amount of serious number crunching
done in C++, and the general trend away from vector machines and towards
parallel machines.

Don Bashford
bashford@scripps.edu