Quoting Chris Forgeron <cforge...@acsi.ca> (from Wed, 06 Oct 2010
11:45:03 -0300):
I'd like to step up and offer to modernize and maintain the ICC port
for FreeBSD.
I may be crazy, specially as 9 is going towards Clang/LLVM. With
that move, there may be a lot of very talented people modifying the
build/make environment to work in a way that is even further removed
from ICC's working. Time will tell if this is viable or not.
Today I see more value in getting ICC to run for the HPC community
than for the kernel/world. When I modified the kernel build
infrastructure to be able to use icc, this was more to get more
warning/error messages from the compiler, than for performance
reasons. The warning/error messages part should now be covered by
clang and coverity, so I do not see very much value in using icc for
the kernel/world anymore.
What I'm looking for is the previous port maintainer's email
address. I ran across it someplace, but can't find it now. He
mentioned having some contacts at Intel, as well as info on the
basic process and tips for the next person who may want to maintain.
My contact at Intel was specific to get an commercial icc license for
FreeBSD. He did not had access to the icc sources or similar. I did
feature requests via the normal support channel.
I'm very interested in HPC, and I believe step one on this long road
for FreeBSD is an option to use a more optimized complier for Intel
platforms (which is all we use anyway).
When icc is done, the fortran compiler is not far away (at least there
where people in the past which took the work for icc and applied it to
the fortran compiler)...
Bye,
Alexander.
--
There is always something new out of Africa.
-- Gaius Plinius Secundus
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