Austin Acton wrote: > 1. Does Mandrake plan to use ICC? No. It's not gpl, and Mandrake's > goal is to be 100 0pl.
Or have demos in commercial apps. > 2. Does ICC have better optimizations than gcc? Hard to say. In my > own experience (computational chemistry), I've found IFC compiled apps > equal to or slightly slower than gcc. GCC has very good optimizations > FOR INTEL. I dunno about AMD. As of gcc 2.9, athlon optimizations were > crappy. I haven't tried gcc 3.2 yet. If you have a P4, you can use SSE2 to do fpmath arithmetics. > Now Intel Fortran compiler is a different story. It BLOWS away g77! > Even i686 compiled fortan code on an ATHLON is WAY faster with IFC than > g77. The fact is Intel has a Fortran 90 compiler, which gcc currently don't have in a decent state for now. Bye, Gwenole
