Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:21:28 05/09/02
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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. I doubt it is "deliberate". Why would Intel worry about optimizing for the K7 when they don't build them? Wouldn't make any sense at all, IMHO... > >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?
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