POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.unix: Performance of GNU vs. Intel C++ compiler on AMD64: Re: Performance of GNU vs. Intel C++ compiler on AMD64

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From: nemesis
Date: 1 Nov 2009 10:56:10
Message: <4aedaf9a@news.povray.org>

clipka wrote:
> In case anyone is interested to know:
> 
> On my AMD Phenom X4 9650 2.3GHz 6 GB Debian Linux system, up until today 
> I used to compile POV-Ray with either the Intel icpc 11.0 compiler 
> suite, or (very rarely) with GNU g++ 4.1.1.
> 
> Benchmarking results used to be clearly in favor of the Intel compiler, 
> with typical differences in execution time of 10% and more.
> 
> I'm just testing with g++ 4.3.2 now, and (as I would have expected) the 
> GNU suite has obviously improved. While it is still a tad behind on 
> average, it quite obviously plays in the same league now as the 11.0 
> version of Intel's compiler.

good to know!  Send a note to the gcc devs informing it gets thumbs up 
from the povray devs... ;)

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