C Compiler benchmark: gcc 4.6.3 vs. Intel v11 and others

[Marc Glisse]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, willus.com wrote:

> For those who might be interested, I've recently benchmarked gcc 4.6.3 (and 
> 3.4.2) vs. Intel v11 and Microsoft (in Windows 7) here:
>
> http://willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_SDK#64-bit_development

For the math functions, this is normally more a libc feature, so you might 
get very different results on different OS. Then again, by using 
-ffast-math, you allow the math functions to return any random value, so I 
can think of ways to make it even faster ;-)

-- 
Marc Glisse