On 3 Okt, CiTay wrote:
>> > does anybody know this compiler for Win32
>> >
>> > http://www.codeplay.com/index.html ?
>> >
>> > may be it produces faster code than icl?
>>
>>I didn't think any compiler not produced by Intel may be able to
>>produce significant better code for any Intel chip. Intel spends alot of
>>money into the compiler group just to show good their chips are.
>
>
> Here's some stuff about codeplay that i found in a newsgroup:
>
> "I use Visual C++ 6.0 SP5 as the compiler. I compiled it with Intel
> C Compiler 5.0 for benchmarking, Intel Compiler made a slower EXE,
> maybe the main purpose of ICC is to optimize for floating numbers.
> I also compiled the calculator with CodePlay Vector C Compiler,
> version 1.1.1, it is almost 30% slower than VC's EXE. Maybe
> CodePlay guys are bluffing their compiler's performance."
Without seeing which optimizations where turned on we can't comment on
this. If it was optimized for e.g. pentiums it may not run as fast as it
could in a e.g. PII.
[google link]
This talk about AMD CPUs. AMD != Intel.
Bye,
Alexander.
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