Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jun 2011 14:23 UTC, submitted by Valhalla

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GNU Fortran : 1.5 min.
Intel Fortran : 0.7 min.
PGI Fortran : 0.7 min.
PathScale Fortran : 0.4 min.
I was blown away by it myself and almost didn't beleive it. I've seen comparable results with other C++ code bases.
Wow, that is good.
Yes we've joked about that in development, compiler benchmarking (and even language benchmarking) in many cases end up being a comparison of which one comes with the most optimized math lib for your particular platform.