Intel C/C++ compiler vs. GNU gcc/MS Visual Studio

Posted by michael on Wednesday January 29, 2003 @04:47AM from the baby-steps dept.

the_real_tigga writes "OpenMag features a benchmark review of the Intel C/C++ compiler as opposed to gcc on linux and Microsoft Visual Studio compiler on Windows XP. Not surprisingly (for me at least), icc beats them both, with dramatic performance improvements. Too bad they chose to review gcc version 2.95, and not the 3.x series, which is known to produce faster code. What is surprising, even AMD CPUs benefit from the icc-compiled code. There is another version of the article here, and they provide a download of the used tools , so you can try it at home too!"

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Re:VC6.0, GCC2.95 by RupW · 2003-01-29 21:03 · Score: 3, Interesting

FYI: you should be able to download the latest Platform SDK from microsoft which includes the latest build tools.

Don't think so. There's the latest IA64 compiler, yes, but no IA32 compiler.

It doesn't have MFC/ATL, but you should be able to still use the versions from VC6 with the new compiler/linker.

I'd be surprised - they've changed the .pdb (debug info) format. That said, the interface for mspdb70.dll and mspdb60.dlls look roughly the same, so you might get away renaming dropping the 70 version into VS6.