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BIG "C" compiler cmp | the "scientific" facts ore out DW (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 12.03.2008, 20:13

> > Intel ... not free (except for Linux??)
>
> There are both commercial (expensive) and non-commercial (free) packages
> for Linux. Free evaluation versions of commercial packages are however
> available for all OSes.

All OSes? Even DOS? ;-) (Did they ever support DOS?)

Last I heard, it was $129 for the student/home version (Win32). And the evaluations are one time only. Blech. God bless DJ Delorie! :-D

> BTW, if you want programs to run on AMD CPUs, it's best to avoid Intel
> compilers altogether.

I think that was due to them not testing AMD chips at all, only their own. And I think it was buggy (or completely disabled) SSE support only. (I can't remember, but it's something like Athlon XP that finally had SSE, and all AMD64 have SSE2). That was old version 9.0, though, so they supposedly have improved since then. (Besides, there were unofficial patches for the Linux version.)

But FYI, all that's second-hand info, I've never used any Intel compiler.

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