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I had the exact opposite experience with Intel's "steaming pile of crap" as you put it. We had a computationally intensive app that was sped up by 25% compared
by eps 11y ago
I had the exact opposite experience with Intel's "steaming pile of crap" as you put it. We had a computationally intensive app that was sped up by 25% compared to the version produced by MS compiler. This was few years ago though.
- blinkingled 11y agoYep, I could totally see it speeding up computationally intensive code - but try downloading it and using it to compile entire code bases with medium to high level of complexity - like ACE/TAO or Qt or any other OSS project. It might compile at low optimization settings but then it's not faster and the moment you try to use optimizations it makes your life hell.
- tosseraccount 11y agoGetting a recent qt to make clean with any compiler is a pain.
- slavik81 11y agoWhat's sort of problems did you have? I haven't tried since 5.3, but it worked fine just following the directions on the wiki: https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_5_from_Git
- elbows 11y agoWe used the Intel compiler at my last job and also had some good speedups. But we also ran into a lot of bugs where it would generate non-working code at the higher optimization levels. For us, the performance was worth the effort of working around the bugs. But that's probably not the case for most projects.