>From my understanding, they are completely different chips with different instruction 
>sets.  I seriously doubt the intel compiler will produce x86-64 instructions.  Not to 
>mention the business perspective...

Taybin

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Oct 16, 2003 11:51 AM
To: 
        The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Athlon64 .. performance boost ?

I know the Intel C++ compiler isn't free software (you
can get it free as in beer to compile open source
apps, though), but it's avail for Itanium.. I don't
know how well it works with AMD's stuff. It's my
compiler of choice.

--- Robert Jonsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> But... guessing is but all we can do (i guess),
> until gcc (or similar?) 
> supports this processor well...unless they already
> do so(?)...

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