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Subject: Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program
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>> force gcc build that MAYBE will work. possibly not.
>
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> My experience with NetBSD suggests you may be right there, but Linux?

After commercial support got too much about directing decisions, NetBSD 
got very quickly useless.

>
> I'll have to build a new Linux installation and see for myself!

Warning: You may not go through it healthy.

> I'm still inclined to say FreeBSD 9.0 is an improvement over 8.2; I never got to 8.3.

There are some new functionality. rctl may be very very very useful.

But as for speed - i don't see it to be better, and at high disk I/O load 
it seems to get somehow longer stalls but it is subjective, no precise 
test done.