nfotis@uunet.uu.net (Nikolaos Fotis) (05/17/89)
Until now, there were two responses to my previous posting. Many thanks to the responders, for clarifying some aspects of f77. Here are (slightly edited) their responses. I'll try again with SunOS 4.0 when we get it, but I doubt if we'll have in the near future a machine with more than 4 MBytes (Sigh..) ______ >from mcvax!Sun.COM!khb (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) v1.2 of f77 (which is the current one) has a very large number of improvements over early releases. Since you are still running 3.5, I assume you are running f77 1.05 ... which is a serious mistake. If you want good performance from Sun compilers you should go with the latest release of sunOS. I came onboard in September and have experienced NO OS related bugs (but then my job is to nail down compiler problems...). For 4.x it is imperative that you configure your kernels (not take the GENERIC default) and you really should have 8Mb of memory. ______ >from mcvax!oconnor!porsche!miker (Mike Raffety) 1. In order to compile a decent-sized FORTRAN program in any sort of optimized fashion, you needs LOTS of compute power (we have several programs that aren't terribly large, and they compile for 20-30 minutes on a Sun-3/260 and use up to 30 MB of swap and up to 20 MB virtual image. There's NO WAY you're going to compile that on a 3/50 with 4 MB with any sort of -O flag (you're probably getting some sort of error message from iropt, the global optimizer, such as "leaves out of order", which indicates it's working file is corrupt). Mine comment: Sorry, but I forgot to say that the -O3 flag worked. The problem appears when I try to combine -O with any other flags, like -mc68020, etc. Finally, the whole story is somewhat mysterious, but that's the reason we have computers: We're here to make their work, not ours :-) Nikolaos Fotis e-mail: mcvax!ariadne!theseas!nfotis or (outside Eunet) try nfotis@theseas.UU.NET Home: 16 Esperidon St., Halandri, Athens GREECE, 152 32
henry@uunet.UU.NET (05/18/89)
>v1.2 of f77 (which is the current one) has a very large number of >improvements over early releases. Since you are still running 3.5, I >assume you are running f77 1.05 ... which is a serious mistake. > >If you want good performance from Sun compilers you should go with the >latest release of sunOS... We want good performance from Sun compilers. However, we also want a reliable and memory-economical kernel, which prevents us from going with any of the latest releases. If Sun wants to sell compilers, it should release the current compilers in a form that is runnable on pre-4.0 systems. (I assume that the binaries on a 4.0.x tape are not.) Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu