Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 19:18:18 05/09/02
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On May 09, 2002 at 10:21:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... because 5.0.1 is faster on k7 than 6.01 > > > >> >>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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