Re: [Flightgear-devel] Intel Compiler

[David F. <dav...@ya...>]

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