i was actually referring to my duron 1.6 being faster than both. i'd like to
do a gcc 3.3/3.4 vs. icc 8.x but i don't really have much time now. and by
the time i do get around to it, there will probably more compiler upgrades.

Thierry CHARLES <thi### [at] les-charlesnospamnet> wrote:

>
> > i have some povray benchmarks. they're much faster than my old celeron 800.
> > they even beat my dad's celeron 2ghz by 33%. what i find interesting is
> > that the gcc compiled binaries beat the icc binaries. it was vice versa on
> > my old celeron. in a nutshell, gcc (3.2.x) is better than icc (7.x) for
> > povray on an athlon-xp core cpu
>
> I think there is something wrong on your dad's pc : a celeron 4 @ 2GHz
> CANNOT be slower than a celeron 2 @ 800 MHz !!!!
>
> On an other hand, you must not compare ICC and GCC on a non-INTEL
> processor : INTEL has no reason to create optimized compiler for
> concurrent processors !
>
> Finally, GCC and ICC have been largely improved since you got your old
> celereon
>
>
> Thierry

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