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Subject: Re: crafty faster on AMD however

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:32:41 09/28/02

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On September 28, 2002 at 11:12:29, Tom Likens wrote:

>On September 27, 2002 at 23:37:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>[snip!]
>
>>>>>So reality is that the above result in reality is even more positive for
>>>>>AMD than it looks like. We simply cannot trust these intel c++ compiles.
>>>>
>>>>Sure you can.  I have tested the 6.0 release of their compiler exhaustively,
>>>>comparing various optimizations with a known good executable from gcc 2.95.2,
>>>>and the intel compiler is producing perfect code from a comparison of the
>>>>two...
>
>Actually, in my tests it's producing *significantly* faster code (especially, if
>you use the profile-enabled optimizations).
>
>regards,
>--tom

I hope I had said the intel compiler was faster.  However, Vincent keeps saying
it produces bad code that doesn't work.  I think he just writes bad code himself
and then complains when the compiler does something that is unexpected, even
if it is legal.  I use the intel compiler everywhere, including my cluster where
several have carefully compared program output between intel and gcc to check
for correctness.

Intel is faster and correct, which is all I want.  :)



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