Well, it looks like we're not alone on this project. This email was just sent
to me:
Adam,
I managed to track down someone who can probably help you with your ICC work,
if you're nice to him. :)
See the forwarded message:
Have your friend contact bill dot hilliard at intel dot com. He's on t
Perhaps we could write a script that compiles packages in portage with both ICC
and GCC and runs them with different flags. I think there was an effort on the
GCC side already to test flags with specific packages. We can then have the
script run time on the applications doing work (again, that
Also, in the academic environment the grad student/university can pay for the
license that the student slipstreams into their gentoo installation, making it
100% legal depending on how many seats he or she buys.
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He's also doing it on a core 2 duo. It would be interesting to compare this
with some mildly legacy hardware (netburst pipelines) in order to see whether
GCC does a comparable job. My guess would be no, seeing as netburst was
extremely ugly and complicated, only intel would be able to write a
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.
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I actually know somebody working at intel, maybe he can get them more involved.
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I'm not suggesting that it be sold. Gentoo is
non-profit anyway, the livecd could be available for
download only. The binaries don't have to be
licensed if you're not selling them, however the
compiler does. This is where the non-commercial free
license comes in (with a fetch restriction requiring
Oh yes, and we can also take advantage of the free support that intel offers
for all users:
http://www.intel.com/support/performancetools/sb/CS-017156.htm
Not to mention they have forums filled with intel developers/experts which we
can get involved. I'm sure intel would benefit from this and
There is some record of a version of the kernel being compiled with some
patches involved. It's probably possible, I'd imagine. Though, this is not
necessary for the first builds.
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There are very few pitfalls, none of which I see as real killers. These
include:
1.) Closed source compiler: Yes this stands against what we believe, and yes by
closing their source they're protecting the trade secrets of their
architecture. It also could be more difficult to debug, although
The intel C Compiler (icc) has an ebuild for gentoo and the wiki has a script
to integrate it with portage. This script works will in terms of building
binaries, however when mixed with gcc environments there are massive linking
issues. I propose that an ICC profile is made which contains spec
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