Has any tried the new Intel compiler yet? I tried it on a few my things and it seems to be about 30% faster than MSVC 6. http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c50/ (41mb) Edited by - Wilka on January 1, 2001 1:33:02 PM

If you have an intel chip.

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I don''t think it''s necessary to have an Intel chip that benefits from the Intel Compiler. Check this article out http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001125/p4-06.html.

The Athlon also get''s a near 100% increase in performance from Intel''s tweaking too.

Just thought I''d point out that VC6 developers can download the MS Processor Pack for supporting new processors and instruction sets (PIV SSE2, for instance). I''m not sure, but I think it provides support for other makes of CPUs, not just intel. You can find it on MSDN.

There is also intel''s AMaths library. It provides some intrinsic functions and some features so that programmers no longer need to use assembler for MMX / SSE / SSE2 and other functions. It''s hidden somweher on intel''s website.

Have fun!

Simon Wilson,
XEOS Digital Development

The processor pack causes some problems with the Debugger and with the use of Virtual Functions in the Constructor. That''s what the readme says. It looks like some cheap hack to get SSE/SSE2/3DNow support into MSVC. You can''t even recompile MFC with it. Who knows what else is broken?

And I can''t use it because I''ve got the Std version. Now, that doesn''t mean what I said above was affected by this.

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