>Well, I am the LAST to recommend significant compilation with a
>closed-source compiler., but here goes

Me too, but in certain situations a faster code is much more important.


>Now the links are set up so your 'makes' will all use icc.

Maybe a bit "hard" solution, I plan to use icc only for few compiles, but
it's not important. another scrips will suffice.


>I think if Intel had any reasonable amount of business sense, they would

>open-source the compiler.  The advantage of having a compiler that would

>really use the Pentium architecture would sell lots of chips--probably

recover a huge amount of market share lost to AMD.
>But since it is closed source, it is unlikely to be used in linux projects.

You can write them. There's a chance they will open it.

Anyway, Microsoft is not kind for the being of a free highly optimized compiler
under linux, open or not.
But I am, at least sometime (LAME, GIMP, data crunching, ... of course for
the kernel... ONLY GCC!)

Thank you again

Olaf




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