John Maddock wrote:
Amit wrote:
Beman Dawes <bdawes <at> acm.org> writes:
Changes I'd like to see include:
* Drop the Intel compiler on Windows. Not enough people seem to care about this compiler/platform. Whaa?? I would suggest that ICL 10.1 should be supported. It is probably the most conformant (and the best optimizing) compiler out there. Irritatingly, 10.0 had introduced many regressions over 9.1, but with 10.1 things appear to be back on track.
Mind you, to get the best optimizations, some esoteric flags have to be used; also, by default the optimizer is set to favour speed at the cost of floating point accuracy. I have played around a bit with optimization settings, and can post the options I use to build boost components (since bjam does not include aggressive optimization settings), if someone would find it useful.
Anyhow, fwitw, I strongly favour keeping ICL support - even if it is not used much owing to not being free, it would function an examplar to other vendors.
I'm inclined to agree to that: Intel have been extremely responsive in the past in responding to compiler issues relating to Boost, and given the level of conformance offered by this compiler, does it really soak up that much time to officially support it? Incidently, it's good to have at least one EDG based front end in our official support list, even if it does emulate the MSVC bugs ;-)
Would you like to volunteer for testing and followup:-? --Beman