From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 3:11:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF8737B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:11:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from disk.fnug.net (213.237.71.107.adsl.amb.worldonline.dk [213.237.71.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBAC943F85 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:11:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@fnug.net) Received: from fnug.net (unknown [192.168.0.3]) by disk.fnug.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F344497 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:11:42 +0059 (CET) Message-ID: <3E48DA6E.9080805@fnug.net> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:11:42 +0100 From: "Paul A. Mayer" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030203 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, da MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ICC vs. GCC: General question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, (newbee, forgive my ignorance ... trying to gain some insight ... ) I have general compiler questions following on a thread in -current after the import of 3.2.2. One poster suggests icc for p4 target compatibility over gcc32. I have no specific need (i.e., no particular program to optimize) I'm just curious as to which compiler would be preferable for general performance on 5.0-RELEASE. Can icc buildworld/kernel an ports for 5.0? If it can, would it make a performance difference for a desktop configuration of 5.0 (world, kernel+modules, X, moz, gnome and/or KDE, multimedia playback, OO)? Thanks /Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message