Intel C/C++ Compiler Beats GCC

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."

Comments

Re:Does this mean?

[subsolar2]

I wish the moderators would not mod up comments that basically say "I'll get modded down for this" and so the moderators mod it up.

I'm really sick of it!!

None of this is a big secret and not terribly insightful at all.

- subsolar

subsolar - brigning stupid comments to slashdot for way too long.

Re:The new intel compiler used to be Kai C++

[SquadBoy]

Given that every single person I know knows this fact I think the original poster might have meant just what you are pointing out. :)

Re:Nope

[RedWizzard]

The moderators should mod up interesting discussions, not mod down those that don't fit their agenda.

Agenda's got little to do with it. This sort of comment may have been interesting and worth discussing the first 50 times it appeared on /., but now it's rather old.