> On another note does anyone have any experience with the > Intel drop in > replacement for GCC? > > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Shane Yes but not very good experience, perhaps mediocre. I had very annoying problems with a bug in the intel optimizer .. It seemed like my code was way faster, until I noticed that it was not giving the correct results, and observed that the optimizer was reducing precision when it should not. There was also some case where it kept optimizing a=b; b=c; into effectively a=b=c; not the same thing at all! THe recommended workaround was to reduce the optimization level , at which point it was no longer faster and I had lost my own time faffing about with it. Since then that bug was supposedly fixed in later release, but they lost my confidence and convinced me further that free software is the way to go, not only for political, but also practical reasons.
