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

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 12:18:00 11/12/01

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On November 11, 2001 at 18:53:00, Steve Timson wrote:

>The installation was easy enough in Mandrake 8.1.  The only trick was (as others
>have reported) that the shell script that sets up environment variables didn't
>work, and I had to add the variables by hand to my .bashrc.  Also, the install
>script first reported that it didn't recognize my hardware.  This is because
>mandrake sets HOSTTYPE to i586 and the script was expecting i386.  A quick edit
>of the install script to expect i586 fixed that.
>
>With a straight compile (just -O3) chester was about 2% faster than the gcc
>version.  When I turned on -ipo which allows cross file optimizations, it got to
>be about 10% faster than the gcc version.  This is on an athlon, no doubt
>intel's own chips will probably see more benefit - but hey, I'll take the 10%..
>:)
>
> - Steve
>
>
Steve

Try profiling you may be pleasantly surprised.  I got 30 percent in total over
gcc.

Some versions of -ipo would not compile with my Mandrake 8.1 and Tbird...

Frank

# For intel compiler, compile with
#  CFLAGS = -O2 -prof_gen
#  then run the program to generate statistics then
#  compile with
#  CFLAGS = -O2 -prof_use
#



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