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  Re: Performance of GNU vs. Intel C++ compiler on AMD64  
From: Quietman
Date: 2 Nov 2009 18:49:41
Message: <4aef7015$1@news.povray.org>
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 x64 which uses gcc 4.4.1. I also used boost 
1.38. Compiled and ran Povray 3.7 beta 34 with no problems. I run the 
allanim and allscenes scripts to give it a good run and it is flying through 
them, very impressed.

"clipka" <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote in message 
news:4aeb4755$1@news.povray.org...
> 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.


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