Intel Compiler Compared To gcc

Screaming Lunatic writes "Here are some benchmarks comparing Intel's compiler and gcc on Linux. Gcc holds it own in a lot of cases. But Intel, not surprisingly, excels on their own hardware. With Intel offering a free (as in beer) non-commercial license for their compiler, how many people are using Intel's compiler on a regular basis?"

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Patents

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Unfortunately, many of the optimization methods used by CPU vendors' compilers are patented with no available royalty-free license, precluding use of the methods in free software.