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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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cc: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Subject: Re: Patches to compile the kernel with Intel's C/C++ compiler
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:22:21PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> at http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/current-patches/ I have some patches
> which allow to compile the kernel with icc (CC=icc make depend && CC=icc
> make). They are a joint effort of Marius Strobl and me.
> 
> The resulting kernel still has some issues (no NFS, some packet loss,
> ... see icc.README in the above mentioned directory), but it boots and
> runs.

What are the benefits of running an icc compiled kernel?

-Guido