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Subject: Re: Intel compiler for Linux

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:39:55 02/28/03

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On February 28, 2003 at 17:34:23, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On February 28, 2003 at 14:37:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 28, 2003 at 12:21:26, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>On February 28, 2003 at 12:15:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've been using it since version 6.0, and for Crafty it
>>>>produces the
>>>>fastest executable of any compiler I have tried.
>>>
>>>Fastest linux executable, or fastest executable period, including the MS
>>>compilers?
>>
>>
>>fastest linux is all I can say with any degree of confidence.  I don't have any
>>easy way
>>to compare to MSVC and windows since I don't have any "equal" machines here yet.
>>
>>We are expecting a group of dual xeons that will be half linux half windows XP
>>within
>>a week or two so I might get to compare there, but I'd personally suspect that
>>MSVC
>>is going to be better (faster) based on past experience.  Intel probably has
>>closed the gap,
>>but not completely I suspect.
>
>
>I thought Dan Corbit had said his binaries are done with Intel for max
>performance on Windows, not MSVC.

Usually, Intel makes better binaries than MS VC++ 6.0 (with all relevant
patches)

However, the MS VC++ .NET compiler frequently beats the Intel compiler.

In addition, the latest MINGW GCC will sometimes pull a surprise with the right
combination of compiler flags.



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