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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (129898)	12/19/2000 7:58:57 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570553

Elmo, You are quite the FUDster. Noooobody is buying P4's at reeetale. Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (129898)	12/19/2000 8:49:12 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570553

You'd know about spewing, Elmer. I thought you would enjoy this stirring testimonial to the quality of Intel's compiler when somebody tried to use it for something other than producing spec scores. I have over 100,000 lines of code. No hand optimizations are ever going to happen. I've actually wasted money on the Intel compiler. Compared to MSC V6.0, the code generated by the Intel compiler was much larger, much slower, and _gave the wrong answers_. I used to believe in SPEC, but owning a copy of the Intel compiler changed my tune on that... I'll use SSE2 (SSE is useless to me because everything I do is double precision) when gcc or Visual C++ support it. Until then, I'll be using nothing but Athlons. Well, if 4Ghz P4's show up next year, I'll look at them. Posted elsewhere yesterday. Then there was your personally stirring testimony from a while back: Numerous people have posted here saying they are using the Intel compilers for their commercial applications. Which turned out to be 1 Intel engineer saying that, er, people used it for bits and pieces. Presumably when they didn't really care if the results were correct. Who's going to complain if a few bits show up in the wrong place on the screen in Quake?