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From: David F. <dav...@ya...> - 2001-10-15 04:16:57
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:10, thousands of scientists watched in disbelief as Bernie Bright asserted this: > Christian Mayer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just seen > > > > http://www.coyotegulch.com/hpc/reviews.html > > > > whre they are claiming that Intel is giving away it's C++ compiler > > (http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c50/linux/) for Linux > > for "free". > > > > Has anybody tried it? Are there significant performance improovements? > > > > CU, > > Christian > > Haven't tried icc on FlightGear yet but his benchmarks are interesting: > http://www.coyotegulch.com/hpc/intel_gcc_bench1.html. Seems there is an > "abstraction penalty" for heavy object oriented code. Not sure if FG > qualifies. It looks to me as if they are using a higher level O3, where gcc uses O2. Would this comprimise their results? David |