[PLUG] Intel C++, GCC compatibility

Phil Tomson ptkwt at aracnet.com
Wed Jan 7 11:35:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Terry Griffin wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 January 2004 10:00 am, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> > I've had considerable experience with the Intel compiler, but only its C++
> > part, not straight C. While it generates fast code, it does not always
> > generate correct code. I've also ran into some C++ code which makes it
> > croak and dump core.
> >
> 
> There's a lot to this approach. I find I can make my code *much* faster
> if don't worry so much about having it do the right thing. This opens up
> many possibilities for some very effective optimizations.
> 

Like you really didn't want to multiply those two large matrices, you 
can get by with multiplying two integers... and floating point, who needs 
it?  ;-)

Phil







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