[OT] GCC vs Intel C++ compiler benchmark

[Florian Weimer]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Yes, I observed that when I ran the HINT benchmark on Windows 95, NT,
> Linux 2.0.34 and 2.1.108 a few years ago (on identical hardware, using
> identical machine code).  Using Linux, performance started to drop
> well before the 512 KB L2 cache is fully used by the benchmark, in
> contrast to NT.  However, when the working set approaches 4 MB and
> beyond, Linux was faster again.

I've recovered the original web page. It is now available at:

        http://www.enyo.de/fw/hint-1998/

Are similar results available for today's machines and operating
systems?