Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
Arr, I'm not happy with the topic, but while reading through Agner Fog's recent thoughts on Intel compiler and software, it seems that the reason why the GNU compiler was slower than Intel compiler is that the GNU compiler has sub-par performance in Windows environment compared to Linux environment. Since most of the code is in C, the GCC should actually be faster than Intel C compiler, while Intel may be slightly ahead with their C++ compiler.

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So, if there's ever going to be linux version compiled with GCC, it could potentially mean that there might be some performance gain for AMD users.
I finally got Linux to boot reliably on both my workstation and my laptop.

I also have the Intel compiler installed, but I haven't figured out how to use it yet so I'm using GCC for now.

So I'm working on it. Ran into some unexpected portability issues with the fpos_t type (among other things). So I'm sorting it out right now.