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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Free Intel C++ compiler
From:       Fergus Morrow <Fergus.To.mod () gmail ! com>
Date:       2004-10-03 11:19:44
Message-ID: 4bb155dc041003041995491a2 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun,  3 Oct 2004 13:15:39 +0200 (CEST), Marc Espie
<espie@quatramaran.ens.fr> wrote:
> In article <415AC885.1070506@telegraph-road.org> you write:
> >Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> >>
> >> The 7.0 version was good. Unfortunatly the 8.x series discriminates unfairly
> >> against AMD processors, and is therefore completly unsuitable for free
> >> software development.
> >
> >If you have an Intel CPU, then what's the problem ?
> 
> You're kidding, right ?
> If you distribute any kind of binaries, then you will distribute stuff
> that runs poorly on AMD, and thus reflect badly on the processor.
> 
> So, the kind of stuff for which you can fairly use the Intel compiler
> is:
> - for your own development;
> - not for distributing any kind of binaries;
> - as long as you don't get paid.
> 
> sounds very restrictive to me.
> 
> I don't know about you, but using a compiler that is obvious set up to
> slam the competition doesn't strike me as ethical either...
> 

That is the point I was trying to make, but I was told Intel C++
compiler was better than GCC. HOw the hell can it be better if it runs
poorly on AMD systems?
> 
> 
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