Intel's "cripple AMD" function

Re:Intel's "cripple AMD" function by wmf on Sunday January 03, 2010 @05:55PM (#1029294)

Has anyone tried the Sun Studio compilers? They're free and supposed to be as good as Intel, but I've seen virtually no discussion of them.

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Re:Intel's "cripple AMD" function by daeken on Sunday January 03, 2010 @06:06PM (#1029307)

For x86, they fall behind a bit. For x64, they're faster than ICC in general. Definitely worth a look if you don't mind going to OSol.

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Re:Intel's "cripple AMD" function by jedbrown on Sunday January 03, 2010 @07:57PM (#1029449)

My experience on x64 has been that Sun is usually competitive with GCC/ICC, but not clearly better. Sun's C99 compiler does really atrocious things with SSE intrinsics, strange since their C++ compiler handles intrinsics almost as well as GCC/ICC. Note that they also work fine on Linux.

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