[linux-audio-user] moterhboard and sound card advise

[Dirk Jagdmann]

Hello Malcolm,

> The Intel compiler is alot better in this regard.  In fact, I've yet to find
> code where the Intel compiler doesn't humiliate the GCC compiler's generated
> binaries.

Interesting. I have been testing the intel compiler with various 
releases from time to time, but hardly find it producing binaries which 
show any significant improvement.
For example I have just recently compared icc8 againt gcc3.4.0 with gzip 
and bzip2 (as I use those programs fairly heavily). I was not able to 
measure any performance increase with icc8, when testing the programs on 
pII cpus. For sure I'd like to see the icc compiler really in action but 
so far I've yet to discover a program where it actually makes any 
improvement over gcc.

About the link you sent in another email: I am sceptical about claims 
coming directly from Intel, as I suspect them to be just marketing 
blurb. If some independant sysadmin confirms their figures with a mysql 
running in a real world production system I would be more satisfied.

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