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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (164474)	4/23/2002 1:17:37 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 186894

John, Re: "Specific to the Intel(R) Itanium(TM) processor, compiler features such as predication, branch prediction, software pipelining and floating point optimizations enable significant performance increase for compute-intensive applications. For Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 and Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processors, version 6.0 of the Intel Compilers supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) and includes processor dispatch and automatic vectorization, which detects patterns of sequential data accessed by the same instruction and transforms code for Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) execution." Sounds great, but the question is - is it stable?!? There has been a lot of criticism over Intel's compilers, so I'd like to see Intel also concentrate on making sure that their compiler doesn't break any code already out there. If stability has improved, though, I'd look forward to some reviews on what kind of performance can be expected from the newest compiler version. wbmw