Am 2011-09-07 07:19, schrieb justin: > On 9/5/11 11:43 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >> Anyone else using Intel's compiler, icc? > > Hi Stefan, > > try to stick to gcc as most pacakges will compile with it. > > I personally use icc/ifort for some sience packages and see > speedups of calculation between 2-25x depending on the *FLAGS. But > this needs much optimization of the flags. Nevertheless interesting > for performance critical apps. > > Another compiler which was recently released after a long time as > closed source app into the open source world is the ekopath > compiler suite (ekopath(-bin) and path64) which proofed to have the > best optimization of all compilers in benchmarks. But same as icc, > it might not work with some packages. > > And never use it with the kernel.
Thanks to both of you (Justin, Tamer). All this doesn't answer my question, but OK, I will find my way ... Greets, Stefan
