It does. I benchmarked compilers for some of my stuff just over a year ago (GCC, LLVM, ICC): http://imagine-rt.blogspot.co.nz/2014/12/c-compiler-benchmarks.htm

It does. I benchmarked compilers for some of my stuff just over a year ago (GCC, LLVM, ICC): http://imagine-rt.blogspot.co.nz/2014/12/c-compiler-benchmarks.html http://imagine-rt.blogspot.co.nz/2014/12/c-compiler-benchmar... and surprisingly I found ICC was no longer always the fastest, whereas two years previously in tests I'd regularly done against GCC 4.1 and 4.4 it would always win, sometimes by a factor of 2x.