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Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: Roger Sayle <roger at eyesopen dot com>
- Cc: Scott Robert Ladd <coyote at coyotegulch dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:05:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, NL
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403141713460.12909-100000@www.eyesopen.com>
Roger Sayle wrote:
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
Consider the following program, compiled and run on a Pentium 4
(Northwood) system:
#include <math.h>
For a number of benchmarks, just this first line of source code above
is enough to loose the race for GCC against Intel when compiling on Linux.
Indeed - and that's the basic reason why you should write this kind of
software in Fortran: No pesky header files destroying your carefully
optimized code ....
[ OK, I couldn't resist :-) :-) ]
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