GCC viciously beaten by ICC in trig test!

[Toon Moene]

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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