On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:35:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Not so - AMD Palominos and Thuroughbreds support all of the Intel
> > instructions and, naturally enough, the AMD chips are faster even with the
> > Intel compiler.. Intel is .. displeased by this.
>
> wow. I was under the impression Intel's compiler did better work using their
> knowledge of the pipelines and what not.
You'd think, wouldn't you? As I said, Intel is Not Happy about this turn
of events. Of course, the benchmarking and comparison was done using
Intel's win32 compiler, but I doubt their Linux compiler is all that
significantly different a beast.
> Either way gcc works just fine at $0 whereas the Intel is $399.
I'll drink to that!
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