[ltp] Intel compiler

[Raphael Wegmann]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:59:25PM -0400, Dean L. Hedin wrote:
> > 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.
> 

Is the Intel compiler open source?
I wouldn't be interested, if not.

-- 
Raphael

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