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

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[timanderson]

first post

New bug in the compiler

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like another slashdot bug:

Moderation Totals: Offtopic=346, Flamebait=4, Troll=27, Redundant=5, Insightful=86, Interesting=192, Informative=48, Funny=10, Overrated=11, Underrated=56, Total=785.

Hello Slashdot Moderators

[Anonymous Coward]

Please mod me down. Our ISP (the only broadband ISP up here) forces us to use their 2 proxies to surf (they block port 80 among others). If you mod me down every day no one from my ISP will be able to post on Slashdot! Thank you!

Re:Hello Slashdot Moderators

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell me about it.

I just gave away a couple of high karma accounts on Slashdot because of:

1) Fascist IP subnet ban policy.
2) Fascist moderation by the janitors.
3) The utter contempt the janitors treat the Slashdot readership which is paying their goddamn salaries. Try complaining about the subnet ban policy, for instance, and our "friendly janitor", jamie, will tell you to go and hunt down the miscreants. So, it's "dead or alive" and "you're either with us or against us" here too??

I'll keep on trolling via anon proxies and junkbuster, though.

Rob Malda is Pink

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot is squelching topics and moderators are abusing their power - so there goes the myth of the open minds of the Open Source community. The dream is gone and good riddance.

Indeed.

Slashdot is going to censorship hell in a handbasket and the transformation reminds me of Pink's transformation from a bohemian rock star into a jackbooted fascist ("that one doesn't look right to me... put him up against the wall!") in Pink Floyd's "The Wall".

Developers: Which C/C++ Compiler Does AI Best?

[Mentifex]

OK, the following individuals are assigned to port the AI Mind.
Larry, you do the perl. Dennis, help Brian do the C. Anders,
the C# and Bjarne, the C++. Guido, get working on the Python.
Stand by for an Ada port, Jean, and for Mind.Prolog, Alain.
Seymour has first refusal rights for Mind.LOGO, and Niklaus
has the option of the Pascalmind. Matz, you had your chance.
Calvin, where are you when we need a one-Trac mind?

Nope

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot is not part of the open source community. It's just a news site.

And why do you think they censor things anyway?
BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY TROLLS!
Look at it: first posts, links to goatse.cx, totally braindead flamebaits, trolls that are based upon nothing, the dumb "*BSD is dead" posts and the pro-Microsoft "open source sucks!" zealots...
If they don't mod all those things down, Slashdot would become a chaos, the home of trolls and flamers (oh wait, it already is).

Re:Nope

[Anonymous Coward]

first posts, links to goatse.cx, totally braindead flamebaits, trolls that are based upon nothing, the dumb "*BSD is dead" posts and the pro-Microsoft "open source sucks!" zealots...

Again quoting Pink: "...that one doesn't look right to me. Put him up against the wall!".

Can you tell me why the same trolls behave themselves on K5? Because the rules of the game are clear there. Slashdot on the other hand likes to boast that they're a user moderated weblog whereas in reality the editors are abusing their unlimited moderation point pool to moderate "wrong thinking" into oblivion even though the users are trying to keep the thread alive (you know what thread I'm talking about).

Not to mention the fascist subnet IP ban which doesn't punish the troll (who can always use an anon proxy) but punishes all the contributing posters on that same subnet. Talk about harsh measures.

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.

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.

History of C++

[Anonymous Coward]

My friends, THIS is history, and we are doomed to repeat it:

On MONDAY morning, Cmdr Taco said "I will repent and keep my pee sprout free from any fecal flecks."

Monday afternoon, he was putting his pee sprout into young boy's poop chutes.

***
On TUESDAY morning, Cmdr Taco said "I will repent and keep my pee sprout free from any fecal flecks."

Tuesday afternoon, he was putting his pee sprout into young boy's poop chutes.

***
On WEDNESDAY morning, Cmdr Taco said "I will repent and keep my pee sprout free from any fecal flecks."

Wednesday afternoon, he was putting his pee sprout into young boy's poop chutes.

***
On THURSDAY morning, Cmdr Taco said "I will repent and keep my pee sprout free from any fecal flecks."

Thursday afternoon, he was putting his pee sprout into young boy's poop chutes.

***
On FRIDAY morning, Cmdr Taco said "I will repent and keep my pee sprout free from any fecal flecks."

Friday afternoon, he was putting his pee sprout into young boy's poop chutes. He continued well into the evening.

***
On SATURDAY morning, Cmdr Taco said "I will repent and keep my pee sprout free from any fecal flecks."

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:WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

because you made fun of Open Source, and not windows. How dare you! :P

AC, that was quite insightful.

- Penguin Kicka

- wonder how long it will be before I get anoter IP ban?