I read a post where someone had a really bad performance issue while compiling with Sun Studio 11 compared to the old Forte (5.4?) release.
I am about to change from Forte and use Sun Studio 11 but I want to know if the performance issue is anything to worry about.
On the other side, is there any performance increase to use Sun Studio 11 CC compared to Forte CC when compiling for a generic dist. ?
Cheers,
Nergal
It really depends on what are you doing and what hardware do you plan to run your progams on.
Overall optimization algorithms have surely improved since 5.4 age.
You *might* experience certain performance problems if you want to run your programs on old hardware (thats probably what you mentioned as a "bad performance issue").
However newer compiler has new optimization features that you might want to leverage to your benefit.
And you obviously have no other choice if you are to get performance out of the new hardware.
Thus said, I'ld advise you to try Sun Studio 11 on your given application.
It is free after all.
regards,
__Fedor.
