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

[Robert Dewar]

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.