Author: Kevin Strickland
Date: 21:51:54 04/20/02
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On April 21, 2002 at 00:43:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 21, 2002 at 00:39:14, Kevin Strickland wrote: > >>>there are 2 ways to discredit results >>> a) discredit the guy who gets them >>> b) discredit the program he gets them with >>> c) discredit the accuracy the testresults were gotten in >>> d) start sueing and during the trial disallow results getting posted >>> >>>he's trying a+b now. >>> >>>Very cheap. >>> >>>The real thing he DISLIKES to hear is that >>>INTEL C++ is FASTER now and it might take another year before >>>m$ will release a new version of its compiler that can beat it! >> >>No I think you took his statement wrong. He was not trying to discredit the >>compiler results, he was definately trying to discredit the statement that Diep >>is "professionally programmed". He was taking a shot at you, not Intel. > >That's the same as trying to discredit results that show the msvc compiler >is not fastest anymore. > >He seems to WORK daily onto the msvc compiler. > >Also we must take into account that usually a new released processor >using a new compiler is doing better on specint programs usually. > >There is known an example recently where a FORTRAN program was speeded >up a factor of 9 or something. > >It is impossible to lossless speedup DIEP 9 times at the same hardware. > >In fact 3.5% is nearly impossible. > >That's exactly what intel c++ did! I might have missed where he said that the MS compiler was still better. Could you possibly show me within this thread where he stated that? Again I state he was discreditting you, not the compiler.
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