Joel wrote:
Try to beat VC8's results. g++ produces bigger and slower code in general. I chuckle when people show benchmarks with g++ alone and proclaim that library A is better than library B. I am not an MS fan but the fact is that VC++ beats g++ with extreme TMP (inlining, templates, small objects optimization, etc).
Slightly off-topic, but how did Intel's 9.1 compiler fair (win and/or Linux)? We've found it better for vectorisation, but may be about to embark on using fusion et al so wondered if you'd done any small object/inlining/templating tests with that too. I've often thought having some performance tests on the regression suite would be good, but I can see it being problematic to factor out different user's and different CPUs et al.