Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 19:23:36 12/19/02
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Well, they bought out KAI C++, presumably that had a big effect. KAI had a really strong reputation for quality, and AFAIK Kuch (the 'K' in KAI :-) manages their compiler division now. Dave On December 19, 2002 at 13:03:10, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >I cannot be very objective here, as I am working on the directly competing >product, but previous versions of Intel compiler were *really* buggy. Compiler >choked on complex integer code regularly. I think it behaved better on FP code >because one FP code resembles other FP code much more than one integer program >resembles other integer program. > >Some time ago they started to pay attention not only for the speed of the code >they emitted, but for compiler stability as well, so recent versions were much >better in that respect. > >Not sure what the status is now, and don't want to speculate. > >Thanks, >Eugene > >On December 19, 2002 at 12:29:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 19, 2002 at 12:20:55, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On December 19, 2002 at 11:43:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>Also he should try the Intel C/C++ compiler v 7.0 download from Intel's >>>>web site. It produces faster code for me than any version of gcc that is >>>>available. >>> >>>It's also generally buggy for programs that are not in the SPEC >>>benchmark set. >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >> >>That is complete horse-do-do. We are using this compiler on at least >>a dozen production programs here. And _none_ of those programs are in >>SPEC. And they have _all_ been validated with large test data sets to >>confirm they produce identical results with gcc and even with some Sun >>workstations. >> >>That is a vincent-like statement that is simply _false_. >> >>I'll be happy to give you the names of people here using that compiler on >>my cluster and on machines outside my cluster, that will verify that they >>have tested it carefully... >> >>It would make no sense for Intel to release something that doesn't work.
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