Christoph Hormann wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
The guy manning the demo told me what the gcc optimization level was (6 I 
think), but as you say, there are plenty of other factors that could be 
influencing it.  I wasn't really trying to evaluate the performance 
improvement.  It was just cool to see pov show up at something like IDF.

Ken

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