Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:57:42 11/12/01
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On November 10, 2001 at 09:41:13, Frank Phillips wrote: >On November 10, 2001 at 07:34:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c50/linux/ >> >>The installation looks kinda complicated though. If anyone >>is successfull, please report here. >> >>-- >>GCP > >The install script did not work for me, so I pasted the following in .bashrc and >anything else that needed it. (I do not know how to set the default paths for >the window GUIs so have to compile etc in a console.). > >I got close to a 30 percent speedup (409 v 529) compared to gcc2.96 and >gcc3.0.1. The Linux executable is now within a few percent of the Windows VC++ >version. Very impressive. So much so, that I have not been using Windows since >I got it - just in time for XP > >You can link statically if you want to produce an executable that does not need >the Intel libraries. > >Hope the gcc guys talk nicely to Intel. Wait till you see version 6 (I have the Win32 version of the beta). It's even better. This will really make Linux into a competitive platform. In fact, I would be keenly interested to see how Linux performs when the whole kernel has been recompiled with the Intel compiler.
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