Author: Slater Wold
Date: 23:07:25 05/08/02
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On May 08, 2002 at 23:54:50, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >Sometimes i hate company politics. A superb compiler intel c++ >they weakened it for K7. Where 5.0.1 compiler was pretty fast >for the superb K7 processors, the 6.0 compiler is deliberatly >doing bad for K7. > >intel c++ 6.0 linux KDE3 MP 1.4Ghz run single cpu >is 2.4% slower than msvc 6.0 sp4+processorpack. > >Please take into account this is WITH profile information. >msvc is already faster without taking advantage of that. > >God, sometimes i hate company politics. > >Last so many years msvc did shit litterary regarding to improve >compiler (at least released nearly nothing). In total from >4.5 to 6.0 sp4 procpack it got faster 3% from which the processor >pack is 2%. > >Intel c++ which is taking use of all kind of new tricks is >actually 8.5% faster on a P3, but 2.4% slower on a K7. > >Sometimes you can dominate because others make major blunders... >...of course intel doesn't sell many compiler versions, so >i understand the math. but sometimes i just hate company politics. >couldn't they make it *equally* fast to the msvc compiler for example? I am not so sure it's company politics. I think it's business. Here you are, distributing a compiler that makes your #1 compeition CPUs FASTER. Your CPUs are already a bit slower, and now you're just going to make that gap larger? I seriously doubt AMD is going to do anything. With all their new CPUs coming out, and trying to break the 2.0Ghz mark, they have their hands full. AMD might be the current "king" of CPUs, but Intels got the money. And they have plenty of it.
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