[ltp] two questions -- 600E / X / RAM

Dean L. Hedin linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:59:25 -0400


> I read that the recently
> released Intel C++ compiler produces code that is 300% faster on the
> average. Unfortunately, the shared libraries compiled with the Intel
> compiler won't work with executables compiled with GCC. You must recompile
> your whole C++ stuff to use it, which is hard since there are source code
> incompatibilties between GCC and Intel C++. So you can only dream of a KDE
> that is three times faster. :-)

I wonder if there are any efforts underway to make an entire distro based off 
of the new Intel compiler.   I understand the same incompatabilities between
the Intel compiler and gcc also prevent builing a linux kernel with it.

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