Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 03:25:25 05/17/01
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On May 17, 2001 at 03:53:30, Roland Pfister wrote: >On May 17, 2001 at 02:11:52, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On May 16, 2001 at 17:41:56, Oliver Roese wrote: >> >>>On May 16, 2001 at 08:16:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Free trial's, but you have to fill in some forms. >>>> >>>>http://news.linuxprogramming.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-15-003-06-DT-CP >>>> >>>>-- >>>>GCP >>> >>>It is about 35Mb to download. >>>What could be expected in return for that? >> >>The Windows version blows both MSVC and GNU C out of the sky for >>chessprograms... >> >>-- >>GCP > >That is a myth. It is better for *some* programs e.g. WB-Comet. >It is worse for Patzer. Also I noticed that it does not optimize >correctly (for Patzer). > >But there is a trial version, so you can test if it is usefull for you. > >Roland That's true. The performance "win" from the Intel compiler also heavily depends on the hardware architecture; on PII and Athlon, comet wins about 10% over the MSC compiler. On the other hand, on K6 or PI, the Intel generated comet is about 10% slower than the MSC compiled executable. Uli
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