GCC 4.3 is catching up, but they are no where near utilizing SSE4 or SSE5 instructions.
http://blog.alphagemini.org/2008/03/icc-vs-gcc-43.html He concludes that it's not worth pursuing, but I beg to differ. Those are signifcant differences for a processor. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
