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Intel Releases Compiler Suite 7.0

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-really-want-to-pay-money dept.

Yokaze writes "Intel boosts its Pentium 4 and Itanium 2 and released Version 7 of its compiler suite. On the Windows side, there is the plugin compability to the .NET enviroment, on the Linux side better compability to the GNU compiler, including the Common C++ ABI.
As usual, there are 30-days evaluation copies and for Linux an unsupported non-commercial version after previous registration at the Intel Evaluation Centre. According to the comments published by Intel marketing, Dr. Fons Rademakers, CERN, claims high compability with GCC 3.2 and a performance increase of up to 30% on their code (The ROOT System)."

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  1. Re:Doubtful by jericho4.0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As I understand it, Intels compilers kisk ass. Faster compilations, faster code, smaller code, etc. Not to knok a great product in GCC, but Intels engineers are no slouches.

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  2. Gentoo support? by crow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What would be really cool would be if a source distribution like Gentoo would support this in addition to gcc. Perhaps they could set it up to first try building with the Intel compiler, and if any errors show up, then try with gcc. It would certainly be interesting to see how well such a system would run.

  3. Intel's Linux compiler with Debian by benjamindees · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I just finished reading this interesting thread on the Debian developers' mailing list. They discuss all aspects of the Intel compiler, including AMD support, possibly adding packages to Debian non-free, and (most interestingly) using icc to compile Debian binaries for distribution.

    There are several speculative "requests" for a donation of a license to Debian for this purpose as well as a plea to Intel to release the suite in .deb format instead of just RPM. All in all it was an interesting read.

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  4. AMD by Per+Wigren · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How much faster will it be on AMD processors then?

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  5. Building the kernel with it by SweenyTod · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is GCC still the only compiler that can build the linux kernel sucessfully?

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