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Subject: Re: Intel C/C++ 5 for Linux free for noncommercial use

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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