Re: P4 vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?

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From: Rowland McDonnell
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:31

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Johan Kullstam <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net> wrote:

> "Robert Myers" <rmyers1400@attbi.com> writes:
> 
> > It's pretty easy to get icc from support.linux.com.  You have to make small
> > but manageagle changes to makefiles to get P4 optimizations.
> > 
> > Obviously change CC=gcc to CC=icc.  Change CFLAGS to CFLAGS
> > = -tpp7 -xW -ip -ipo -vec_report3 -O3.
> > 
> > The vec_report3 will inform you of all the loops that haven't vectorized,
> > even with Intel's own compiler.  Then you go to support.intel.com and become
> > an expert on the P4's baroque architecture.
> 
> it's beyond baroque and is strongly rococo.
> 
> <URL:http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/b/baroque.html>
> <URL:http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/r/rococo.html>

I should hope so too.  Baroque *music* is wonderful; I for one get a
little irritated every time I see `baroque' used as a perjorative.  But
rococo is unutterably awful whichever way you look at it...

Rowland.


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Subject: Re: P4  vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?
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