[PLUG] attention ace Linux programmers!

Carla Schroder pluglist at bratgrrl.com
Sat Jun 22 10:51:51 UTC 2002


Got any juicy feedback on Intel's Linux compiler? I'm looking at version 6. 
gcc compatibility, compile/executable speed, flexibility, useful libs- 
anything at all. Is it worthy? If the cost did not matter, would you choose 
it over gcc? A developer working strictly on IA32/64 might find it to be the 
better tool for the job, as gcc is like one of those eleventy-nine thousand 
piece Sears toolkits. It's nice to have all those pieces, even though you'll 
never use them.

Intel makes much of optimizing for their instruction sets- how big a deal is 
this in the real world? One example: gcc supports pretty much all IA 
instruction sets, except SIMD, which Intel thinks is pretty important. 

thankee kindly,
Carla
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