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Intel Releases Compiler Suite 7.0
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)."
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)."
I doubt that such a compiler would be any faster than the Free gcc compiler. Sure, Intel makes the chips, but they have not had the advantage of thousands of software experts and academics being able to look over their code and fix bugs. I wouldn't trust it at all, especially not a .0 release. I'm surprised that commercial companies even use this when there is a far superior alternative available for Free.
--sdem
if it's open-sourced.