Here's a somewhat highly technical subject

Does anyone know of good compilers for x86 linux? I'm doing some work which is quite intensive and the gnu gcc / g++ compilers just don't cut it. I know that if I had time to hand optimize (loop unrolling, ...) the assembly code the compiler creates I would achieve quite a performance gain. I'm by _no_ means an expert in compilers, but I thought we might be able to get an interesting thread going talking about compiler technology.

-Bash