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

[Tim Prince]

On Tuesday 16 April 2002 09:59, 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.
My impression was the kernel didn't use C++, so the differences between older 
g++ compilers and current standards aren't relevant.  I didn't see any C++ 
there myself.  Goals have been set to make the linux kernel build with Intel 
C on both ia32 and ia64; the older free versions of Intel C won't do it.  I 
don't know what you mean by "same incompatabilities."

-- 
Tim Prince

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