Big differences on SpecFP results for gcc and icc

[Richard Guenther]

On 6/12/05, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:

> 
> I could tell you why for PPC (where we aren't that far behind xlc or icc
> on a lot of them, if you use the right options), but no clue for x86.

It would be interesting to see what the difference is with
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-06/msg00754.html
and using fpmath=sse, linking against Intel libimf.  At least it would tell
us if we're not optimizing as good, or if simply Intels math library is
better.

Richard.