[PLUG] Intel Linux compiler

[Ed Sawicki]

Thanks, Paul. I find their 30% speed improvement interesting.
I'm also wondering whether statically-linking with their
compiler produces executables that are as large as with
gcc and GNU libraries.

Ed


On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:50, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 13:04, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > 
> > > I've never done any performance testing of the binaries it
> > > produces, though they seem to behave well. Assuming your output is
> > > dynamically linked, it will have a dependency on one or more of
> > > the Intel runtime libaries.
> > 
> > Does this means that if I wrote a dynamically-linked GPL program
> > with Intel's compiler I'd be able to distribute the libraries?
> 
> Yep. You may redistribute the libraries, unless you're using the
> 'Evaluation License,' in which case you can't do much of anything
> besides evaluate the product. Here's the legalese:
> 
>     Redistributables: include header, library, and dynamically 
>     linkable library files. You may copy and distribute (except under
>     an Evaluation License) the Redistributables, or any portions
>     thereof, as part of the product you developed using the Developer
>     Tools.
> 
>     ...
> 
>     The Materials defined as Redistributables are the following files: 
> 
>     libcprts.so.1
>     libcprts.so
>     libcxa.so.1
>     libcxa.so
>     libguide.so
>     libunwind.so.1
>     libunwind.so.2
>     libunwind.so
> 
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
> 
> 
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