[Rd] speed difference between pgf77 and g77 on amd64

[Liaw, Andy]

For those interested:

I compiled R-1.9.0beta_2004-04-02 with pgf77/gcc/g++ and g77/gcc/g++, both
_without_ fast BLAS.  Both passed make check-all.  Simple crossprod(m) for
fairly large `m' shows that the version compiled with pgf77 is about 15%
faster:

[andy at leo:scratch]% echo "set.seed(1); m <- matrix(runif(5e7), 1e4); gc();
system.time(crossprod(m))" | R-1.9.0-PGI/bin/R --slave -q
           used  (Mb) gc trigger   (Mb)
Ncells   431805  23.1     741108   39.6
Vcells 50125266 382.5  150395933 1147.5
[1] 671.14   0.30 762.35   0.00   0.00

[andy at leo:scratch]% echo "set.seed(1); m <- matrix(runif(5e7), 1e4); gc();
system.time(crossprod(m))" | R-1.9.0-GCC/bin/R --slave -q
           used  (Mb) gc trigger   (Mb)
Ncells   431805  23.1     741108   39.6
Vcells 50125266 382.5  150395933 1147.5
[1] 777.55   0.40 882.37   0.00   0.00

I'd welcome comments and suggestions on code for further comparison.  I will
also keep trying to compile R with pgcc/pgCC and see if further gain is
possible.

Best,
Andy
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