list of package built with icc and flags used

ewan.paton

i know lots of people have been playing with icc 8 in an attempt to extract every last ounce of perfomance from their machines so i thought a thead like this could be handy.
basicly just list the packages you have managed to build,
compiller flags,
icc version,
any perfomance gains/losses & stability effects you notice,
your CPU and anything funny you had to do to get it working.

hopefully this will serve a referance for everyone, im still downloading icc 8 at the moment so will add to this thread once i get more than povray to compile.
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CoronaLover · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject:

I only tried xmms and bzip2 so far, both work fine.
bzip2 is a little bit faster with icc.
I have an Athlon 1.4Ghz CPU and I found that using the default -O2 flag gives me the best performance.

Cheesefoam · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Jan 2003 Posts: 89

FYI, there already is a list in the other ICC 8 thread here.

However, I'll move it up to the top of the thread to make it easier to find.

As for XMMS, while it does compile, I haven't seen it work properly (XMMS-1.2.7-r20). It runs, but will not load any files to play, nor does the playlist work.

ewan.paton · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 9:30 pm Post subject:

sorry when i read it the discusion was mostly about icc uses of and generaly how to make it work rather than a big long list for reference, i didnt mean to make a duplicate post
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ebrostig · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 9:35 pm Post subject:

I have also compiled qt-3.3.0_beta1 without a problem. The 'designer' is blazingly fast now, much more so than with gcc.

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ebrostig · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:39 pm Post subject:

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:41 pm Post subject:

I have also compiled the following packages using icc:

- tar
- bison
- bzip2
- xmame (See bug 35607 for 2 small patches)
- bash (See bug 36000 for patch to the latest bash ebuild)
- nano (See bug 36002 for patch to the latest nano ebuild)
- xscreensaver (See bug 36015 for the latest ebuild and individual patches used by the ebuild)
- gzip (See bug 36016 for patch to the latest gzip ebuild)

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AngusYoung · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:55 pm Post subject:

I 've compiled xchat 2.0.6 with icc 8.
I also managed to compile wget without any workaround.
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ry00 · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 11 Location: singapore

just compiled gkrellm and aterm.
so far so good.
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