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Subject: Re: INTEL C++ finally faster!!

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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