On Mar 30, 2010, at 01:09 , Levente Uzonyi wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, John M McIntosh wrote: > >> >> On 2010-03-29, at 2:11 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, John M McIntosh wrote: >>> >>>> Actually one *can* make the linux VM faster than the MacOS one on the same >>>> hardware using just the right version of GCC. >>>> >>>> But frankly the *easiest* way of doing that is for Pharo to fund the >>>> yearly license for using the Intel Compiler and provide a >>>> one-click Intel compiler based VM. >>> >>> For Intel CPUs that's a good solution, but those binaries would be really >>> slow on AMD and VIA CPUs. >>> >>> >>> Levente >> >> Maybe, assuming someone runs some numbers, and/or you think that intel >> purposely trashes performance on those machines if you >> use their compilers? > > http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49 > >> >> Also is the linux crowd 100% AMD/VIA? If it's only 20% as per the Intel CPU >> market share, then maybe the 80% of linux > > Definitely not. > >> intel CPU based users would enjoy better performance versus a muddled >> offering in order to keep in line with the slowest 20% of the user base? > > I'm not against the use of icc, but it's not a silver bullet. The question > is: how much better performance can be achieved with it? Having 2% better > performance for 80% of the users, while -50% performance for the rest doesn't > worth it IMHO.
What's the yearly costs for the Intel Compiler license? Adrian _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
