Hi Nat,
> one of my colleagues found (on Linux) that the exp() function provided
> by g77 was 20-fold slower than the equivalent in the Intel math library.
I do not know whether this has recently been changed, but the license for
icc-produced executables used to be rather restrictive. If I remember
correctly, you were not allowed to distribute the binaries, full stop.
This together with the fact that until recently (icc v.11.0.074) the
icc-produced executables would not run on specific AMD-based hardware, had
made me return to the safety of gcc.
My twocents,
Nicholas
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