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Sounds like the best choice for me. Thanks.
John
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John M. Drescher wrote: I would use gcc since I believe that it is by far the best compiler
What do you mean by "best"? It is probably the best when it comes to the number of platforms it is ported to, but it is not the best in categories such as optimization, speed of compilation and standard compliance.
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"Best" in market share maybe.
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On top of the unparalleled CPU support, I consider it a better optimizer than Microsoft compilers which tend to take several years and a product update to add support for new cpu instructions. And also since we have more than 50% of our machines being 64 bit AMD x86 machines the Intel Optimizing compiler is not a good choice being that I have seen far too many complaints that this not only does not optimize for AMD it actually makes things slower by not using SSE2 ...
John
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