[PLUG] Intel Linux compiler
Fedor G. Pikus
fedorp at wv.mentorg.com
Thu Feb 6 22:43:01 UTC 2003
Be warned that the compiler's quality is suboptimal at best. We have
several bug reports open with Intel against this compiler. With
optimization enabled, it can generate bad code very easilly, and it's damn
hard to find.
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Basically, I just installed icc 6.0 for a class out here at OGI, did
> some basic testing to ensure that it produced usable binaries, wrote a
> short help page detailing its use, and then ignored it. I really
> haven't played with it beyond that.
>
> --Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
>
>
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