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To: Haim Barad who wrote (74513)	10/7/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572866

Haim - <After all, nobody runs SPEC at home/business. People run SW products produced by many different companies that must develop their products using the support environment provided. The same goes for game consoles, operating systems, and so on.> Do non-spec benchmarking suites take advantage of C/C++ compiler optimizations? I.e., fi effective C/C++ compiler optimizations are made, can you provide some sort of feel as to how non-spec scores might be affected? PB

To: Haim Barad who wrote (74513)	10/7/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572866

Re: "Yes, but SW development support are PART of the product. If Intel has a better SW development support, won't that mean that SW will tend to run better on Intel parts." I think you make a good case and I tend to agree, but you know that many people accuse Intel of just developing a compiler to look good on SPEC benchmarks. They claim nobody really uses it. Can you give us an idea as to just how many companies actually use the Intel optimizing compiler? EP