<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bob Sanders</b> <<a href="mailto:rmsand@concentric.net">rmsand@concentric.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Intel's compiler fairly cheap - approx. $600. Free for non-commerical<br> home use.</blockquote><div><br> <br> This is the first time I heard of intel compilers and I am using dual 3.2 GHz irwindales with 1 mb cache each and 2 GB of ram. Is there any advantage to using these compilers over GCC? What performance gain can I expect?<br> </div><br> And more on topic: the dual 3.2 GHz irwindales run like a charm. I think that installing my entire system from stage 1 to full gnome took approximately 5 hours in compile time. <br></div>