It supports fortran 90, don't know about F95. But I gotta tell you, stay away from fortran! Such a broken, horribly deprecated language that no longer serves any useful purpose!
Actually, Intel never made such performance claims - I did. But on worthwhile benchmarks such as SPECcpu2000, gains of over _100%_ can be had, on the Itanium platform.
Seriously, you have no idea just how bad GCC/G++/G77 can be.
Of course, if your application is I/O limited or somesuch, sure, the Intel compiler won't help much (if at all) but for stuff that's reasonably CPU-bound, it does a good job.
Actually, some Intel (and HP, etc) employees were at a fairly recent
"GCC IA64 summit" discussing ways in which GCC on IA64 hardware might be improved (it is by far the "worst case" - people are already getting fairly decent speedups in experimental GCCs with P3/P4 support)
The unfortunate truth is that the Intel compiler isn't entirely theirs to sell (or at least 'open up' for GCC to consume) - the front end is an Edinburgh Portable Compilers' one (hope I spelt that right) and the back end could never be worked into GCC without tearing it (GCC) up completely, and reimplementing the whole thing...
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It supports fortran 90, don't know about F95. But I gotta tell you, stay away from fortran! Such a broken, horribly deprecated language that no longer serves any useful purpose!
Seriously, you have no idea just how bad GCC/G++/G77 can be.
Of course, if your application is I/O limited or somesuch, sure, the Intel compiler won't help much (if at all) but for stuff that's reasonably CPU-bound, it does a good job.
The unfortunate truth is that the Intel compiler isn't entirely theirs to sell (or at least 'open up' for GCC to consume) - the front end is an Edinburgh Portable Compilers' one (hope I spelt that right) and the back end could never be worked into GCC without tearing it (GCC) up completely, and reimplementing the whole thing...
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