On 28-aug-2006, at 10:21, Dan White wrote: >> >> Could someone who is using the Intel compiler say something about >> the performance of resulting binaries compared to binaries created >> by GCC. I'm obviously mostly interested in the speed of the python >> interpreter. >> >> Ronald >> > > for C++ code which is doing recursive / parallelisable tasks > with processor optimisation flag -xP (for an intel core duo chip) > it is faster than gcc4 with optimisation for auto vectorisation and > other speed optimisations > > At least in my case. Of course mileage might vary... > I suggest its at least worth running some benchmarks > so wee what differece it makes for various kinds of tasks in python.
I was hoping that someone had already done that :-). Having a look at the intel compiler is somewhere on my todo list, ever since a college noticed that he got higher pystones in Windows running in Parallels than running natively on the same mac. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
