I'd like to get your point of view on the following topic: runtime performance of binaries built against the IBM VisualAge c++ compilers. I've been recently investigating (with a colleague) various performance matters on a subset of platforms: Power 4 and Power 5 architecture running on different flavors of the AIX operating system, using binaries built with VisualAge C/C++ . We built and ran the boost::uBlas regression tests using either the VisualAge C/C++ v.9 or the GCC 4.0 compilers. Using similar levels of optimization, we observed that the GCC binaries were running much faster. The same tests were performed on a Linux 64-bits machine using a standard Core2 processor and GCC-4.2 and performance was again much much higher. Are we missing something here, something that could allow us to get a decent level of performance with the IBM compilers ? Thanks, Eloi -- Eloi Gaudry Free Field Technologies Axis Park Louvain-la-Neuve Rue Emile Francqui, 1 B-1435 Mont-Saint Guibert BELGIUM Company Phone: +32 10 487 959 Company Fax: +32 10 454 626