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Re: Some benchmark comparison of gcc4.5 and dragonegg (was dragonegg in FSF gcc?)
I am agree with this for moderately optimizing compilers. But for
highly optimizing compilers it might be no true. Intel generates much
better and bigger code than gcc. Although it might be mostly because of
code versioning (including one for different subtargets).
I don't think this is true if you select the appropriate option in
ICC to generate code for just one target, but of course if you let
ICC generate code for multiple targets (e.g. GenuineIntel with SSE
vs AuthenticAMD without SSE), then of course you get larger objects,
since you have a run time test and then essentially two separate
compilations of the same code in the same object.