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Re: GCC Benchmarks (coybench), AMD64 and i686, 14 August 2004

Joe Buck wrote:

I just think we need to be careful to be absolutely sure we
know what icc is doing before we criticize.


I'm not accusing the icc developers of lack of ethics; merely pointing
out that, as for many compilers, performance on benchmarks can be
misleading.


Sure, but the issue here is not ethics, it is a technical issue
of what optimizations are permissible. And secondarily, what
optimizations are actually useful.


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