ROOTers, with the current version of ROOT in CVS we now fully support the latest Intel icc v6 compiler. This compiler provides about 30 to 45% faster code then gcc 2.95 or gcc 3.x on Intel PIII and P4 systems. The Linux version of this compiler can be freely downloaded from: http://www.intel.com/software/products/eval/ (get the "non-commercial unsupported software" version which is free). With ROOT on my P4 machine this compiler produces 35% faster code (both in debug and optimized mode). At the same time it compiles also about 20-30% faster than gcc. To install ROOT do: ./configure linuxicc; make For more on this compiler see also: http://www.open-mag.com/features/Vol_15/IntelC/intelc.htm It is nice to see your good old PC suddenly run 35% faster. Cheers, Fons. -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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