On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 11:35 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 16/02/07, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15/02/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > BTW, certain operations (atomic operations/counters/etc) > -require- asm > > > code. > > > > > In an age where GCC, probably the least optimizing compiler > among all > > popular compilers... > > > If gcc is so bad, can one use a different compiler on, say, an > FC6 > box? I'm not computer expert, but I'd like the programs that I > do > compile to at least run as best they could. > > There is a multitude of commercial compilers. Last time I heard, > Intel's was considered the best or close to the best (it's their code > that made Microsoft's compiler so good).
Last time I checked the Intel C compiler generated code either use slow-code-paths on AMD cores, or failed completely. (Same goes for the rest of the Intel support packages [vtune, etc]). As such, it is pretty useless for multi-platform work. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
