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Re: GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!


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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