(L) [2006/05/09] [Phantom] [Intel C++ compiler 9.1] Wayback!I thought this deserves a special mention. The icc is the best performing compiler right now, especially if you don't have the time to tweak gcc extensively. In my tests, it outperforms VS2005 by almost 20%, without any special settings (other than the obvious O3 and some others).
I am downloading the evaluation version now, as Toxie mentioned that it has problems with my sources...
Linky:
[LINK http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/279578.htm#new]
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(L) [2006/05/10] [Lynx] [Intel C++ compiler 9.1] Wayback!Hm what's the thing with the "genuine intel" checks people used to patch away to be able to execute the Prescott optimized code on AMD64 CPUs, because the optimizations happened to be not really so Prescott specific?
I don't know much about icc, i just read an article about it a while ago when AMD64 CPUs with SSE3 where just about to be released, and the Prescott optimizations potentially use SSE3 instructions. But even when it did not the patched binaries were faster on Athlon64/Opteron CPUs than those using the non-Prescott path. Did intel change this meanwhile?
However it seems the "crippled" binaries still are pretty damn fast compared to other compilers...