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Intel C/C++ Compiler Beats GCC

Posted by michael on from the giving-her-all-she's-got-captain dept.

jfonseca writes: "An article from Open Magazine claims the new Intel C/C++ compiler's geometric mean performance on multiple kernels compiled through it reached 47% improvement over GCC. They also predict the end to the ubiquitous GNU compiler due to low performance. Many other compiler/platform combinations also compared. A bit pretentious, yet an interesting read."

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  1. Re:Take over? I think not... by zsazsa · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Biting at the troll ...

    It's not free software.

    It's free as in beer for uncommercial uses - go ahead and download it yourself. The only problem seems to be that they say it's just for RedHat or TurboLinux. However, it seems like it just puts itself in /opt and leaves things alone, thankfully. They did get it to work under SuSE.

    geometric mean performance on multiple kernels compiled through it reached 47% improvement over GCC.

    The testing didn't involve compiling kernels at all

    I believe this misunderstanding comes from the fact that they called their different benchmarks "kernels" for some reason.

    Ian