Timeline for Are Intel compilers really better than the Microsoft ones? [closed]
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| Aug 3 at 13:54 | comment | added | Olórin | @doug65536 Too good, sometimes. Beware. | |
| Aug 3 at 13:53 | comment | added | Olórin | I wonder, as often with stack sites, which champion closed that question as opinion-based. As I am stupid, I have an idea of a finite list of criteria to compare two c++ compilers on a given version of a given OS, and how to scientifically benchmark them for each criterion. I must be very opinon-based. As science perhaps, lol. Again, no wonder why people are turning away from stack sites. Fact of which the delusional champions heading the company must be proud of. | |
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| Dec 4, 2014 at 13:26 | history | closed | gnat Dan Pichelman CommunityBot DougM | Opinion-based | |
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| Aug 30, 2013 at 3:43 | answer | added | LOG_TAG | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 12:54 | history | post merged (destination) | |||
| Apr 30, 2013 at 12:54 | history | reopened | ChrisF | ||
| Apr 30, 2013 at 7:28 | history | closed | Robert Harvey Martijn Pieters thorsten müller Kilian Foth Bart van Ingen Schenau | exact duplicate | |
| Apr 29, 2013 at 23:12 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 29, 2013 at 20:48 | answer | added | jdv-Jan de Vaan | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 27, 2012 at 1:00 | comment | added | doug65536 | Microsoft compiler generates very good code. Manual inspection of the assembly rarely finds any idiotic instruction sequences. In fact, I was impressed how deep the optimizations go, it even prevents instructions from crossing cache line boundaries. | |
| Jun 9, 2012 at 13:32 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 6, 2012 at 14:30 | comment | added | Mark Booth | It's never a good idea to highlight that your question is soliciting opinion, especially when it has been asked before. | |
| Jun 5, 2012 at 4:14 | answer | added | martiert | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 5, 2012 at 3:18 | answer | added | mattnz | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 5, 2012 at 1:25 | comment | added | user7071 | Right. It is high politics. The relevance of Open Source to technology is just accidental | |
| Jun 5, 2012 at 1:13 | comment | added | kaoD | @RocketSurgeon open source has nothing to do with money. | |
| Jun 4, 2012 at 23:10 | comment | added | user7071 | I do not hate Open Source. I agree, that if you disconnect money from software, you help people to get better software. Say today, after years of Open Source movement I have luxury of getting free Visual Studio Express. Without Open Source influence on big vendors it will possibly cost me few bucks. | |
| Jun 4, 2012 at 22:43 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @RocketSurgeon: Not everyone would agree with your statement. In fact Eric Raymond makes a pretty strong case for Microsoft having held the progress of computing back by a few decades with their business practices. | |
| S Jun 4, 2012 at 18:00 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Copy edited. |
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| Jun 4, 2012 at 1:09 | comment | added | user7071 | And by no means I have any disrespect to both teams. If not this 2 companies, this 21st century would be some kind of steam punk utopia instead of what we have now. Those teams should be held under triple glass jars away from public | |
| Jun 4, 2012 at 0:59 | comment | added | user7071 | Right. Unless there is nobody to point a gun at. I heard that when source of Windows was leaked, people found that the real compiler was 2 generations behind what MS was selling at the moment. I estimate it is very possible that there are about 1..10 capable writers of compilers in a whole world. I mean head count, not vendor count. | |
| Jun 4, 2012 at 0:54 | comment | added | President James K. Polk | Not really an answer, but nobody owns more code that runs on Intel processors than Microsoft. If there is some important optimization the Microsoft compilers are missing, you can bet the MS Windows team will hold the MS compiler team at gunpoint until they implement it. | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 14:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/209287132974551040 | ||
| Jun 3, 2012 at 13:51 | history | edited | user7071 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1 characters in body |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 12:49 | answer | added | Mason Wheeler | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 12:33 | answer | added | K.Steff | timeline score: 58 | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 12:22 | history | edited | user7071 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 782 characters in body |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 12:01 | history | asked | user7071 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 5:27 | comment | added | Crashworks | A glib answer would be, "The Intel compiler is the only one that comes close to actually doing half of all the optimizations that 'any smart compiler should' do for your code." | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 6:26 | answer | added | David Schwartz | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 19:29 | answer | added | Jerry Coffin | timeline score: 27 | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 16:25 | answer | added | quant_dev | timeline score: 35 | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 16:13 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | @honk: If quant_dev can provide some links to back that up, then yes it should be! | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 15:51 | comment | added | quant_dev | Intel Compilers have a reputation for producting very efficient numerical code. | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 15:47 | comment | added | Michael Todd | Probably because when a company is used to a set of tools and its quirks, they tend to stick with it. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. | |
| Aug 4, 2011 at 15:45 | comment | added | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | I would guess they do it because they need some specific feature of that compiler that others do not have. Or maybe they want paid support from Intel if things go wrong? I don't know for sure, having never done it myself... |