"jhu" wrote:
> "waggy" wrote:
>
> > I was also surprised that gcc POV-Ray (3.7 beta) binaries consistently
> > outperformed (by a little bit) those compiled with icc, even on a machine with
> > Intel processors and using an FPU-intensive 3D fractal object for the test
> > scene.
>
> Interesting. What kind of processor?

Two-socket boards, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz; no hyper-threading, so
eight cores total.

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