Kristian Nielsen <kristian.nielsen@risoe.dk> writes: > The Compaq compilers seem to deliver far superior performance to > gcc. It is a bit of a pity that we have to rely on a closed compiler > for computationally intensive computations on Alpha, but that's life > I guess. For non-FP stuff, I have seldomly found cxx to outperform g++, in my test cases it was usually a bit slower, and sometimes a lot slower. Falk