icc 6 compilation

[barry]

Has anyone managed to get much compiled using Intel's compiler? The benchmarks are certainly looking impressive with version 6.

http://www.coyotegulch.com/

It seems that libtool can't handle icc, so just about any builds including shared libraries will fail. What's the workaround for this?

[sibn]

I have been tempted to try icc just for the fun of it, but there is one major issue to take into account: icc is only for x86 processors. I'm not interested in immediately alienating a portion of my audience just by catering to my own architecture.

The other thing is that it's perfectly well possible to build shared libraries without libtool- it's just a little easier. Unless you want to build the shared libs on multiple architectures, in which case it's significantly more complex.

[klieber]

Has anyone managed to get much compiled using Intel's compiler?

This was discussed a while back on the mailing list. Might check the archives for more info.

Additionally, I seem to remember that one of the glaring problems with icc was that the kernel wouldn't compile correctly with it.

--kurt

[barry]

It was mentioned a while ago, but this was before the new version was released, which can compile the kernel and is mostly compatible with gcc.

I doubt anybody expects a distribution compiled entirely with icc rather than gcc; certain packages would seemingly gain a large performance boost though.