On 09/24/2010 06:16 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stroller > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote: >>>>> ... >>>> >>>>>> Uh, what are PGO and ICC?? >>>>>> >>>>>> I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on >>>>>> Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about >>>>>> build parameters seriously. >>>>> ICC is the Intel C compiler. >>>> >>>> Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression >>>> it is not free (as in beer). Is that true? >>>> >>> I don't know but I can emerge -q icc >> >> There is other non-Free software you can install with Portage. >> >> Just yesterday I was looking at games-fps/ut2003 and games-fps/ut2004 - I >> believe these require the game's installer CDs to work. >> >> I would imagine that if you were to emerge ICC it would require an >> activation key before it would compile anything, otherwise we'd all be using >> it. > > According to the Gentoo Wiki, a free non-commercial license is > available, ICC is not fully compatible with GCC, and the list of > packages that "work well with" ICC is rather short (though that in > itself doesn't mean anything other than whoever made the wiki typed a > short list). > > I have not personally tried it. >
AMD users may wish to confirm that ICC no longer cripples its output for non-Intel chips: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Criticism
