On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2013-09-01 20:13, William Stein wrote: >> >> One could maybe build some >> component of Sage with icc though (e.g., try to build MPIR). > > MPIR is mostly assembly code, for which the C compiler doesn't really > matter. Compiling PARI for example with icc would be a more interesting > test.
A lot of the (optimized) code in Sage is specifically developed on/targeted at gcc (simply because that's what people had/knew/learned). It would be an interesting exercise though. - Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.