Ken Cecka wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just got back from IDF last night.  One of intel's booths had an Itanium
> system running linux, with the intent of highlighting intel's optimized
> compiler (vs standard gcc).  It caught my attention because the application
> they had compiled and were running in parallel was pov, rendering one of
> the metal texture preview scenes (coppers or brasses).  They had two
> instances of pov running parallel, one built with gcc, the other with the
> intel compiler.  The intel compile was running about 30% faster.  I didn't
> actually time the render, and I don't know what clock speed the itanium was
> running at, so I can't say much for the overall performance.  I just
> thought it was cool that they were using pov for their demo.
> 

Sounds interesting although you can't say much from such a demonstration,
the gcc version could be compiled without any optimization or there could
be other differences.

Christoph

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