On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am building/rebuilding some new cache servers. I have some questions
would it be better to use the intel compiler that is getting alot of press
or stick with gcc etc on a Linux server?
Squid is usually not CPU bound..
Would there be any performance improvement in a squid configuration ?
If your system is CPU bound then using a better compiler may help..
But not by much. I tried out the Intel compiler a couple of years ago, with barely measurable (statistically insignificant) results. And while I'm sure the Intel compiler has improved in those two years, GCC probably has also. And given that the difference between a build with no optimization and a build with high optimization is also quite small, I don't foresee any compiler improvement being capable of significantly altering Squid's performance.
