11 Feb
2002
11 Feb
'02
10:52 p.m.
[Morten W. Petersen]
I've just read an article on open-mag:
http://www.open-mag.com/754088105111.htm
about the new Intel C++ compiler, here are some quotes:
I think you may have overlooked the one at the top of the page <wink>: Intel's C++ Compilers for Linux and Windows smoke GNU C and MS Visual C++ in number crunching benchmarks. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The Intel compiler tries to exploit special short-vector hardware that's of great use in number-crunching apps that spend most of their time in tight, regular, numeric inner loops, but sits idle otherwise. There's very little of that in Python or Zope.