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"Performance Comparison of Intel C++ Compiler 9.1 for Linux and GNU gcc 4.1.1 on AMD- and Intel-processor-based systems"
Principled Technologies Inc.

Test Report, June 2006

"The Intel C++ Compiler 9.1 outperformed the GNU gcc 4.1.1 compiler by a significant margin while running an industry standard benchmark"

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"SPEC CPU2000. Part 24. Efficiency of Profile-Guided Optimizations in Intel® C++/Fortran Compiler 9.0, Intel® Pentium® 4 660 and Athlon 64 4000+ Processors"
By Dmitri Besedin

Digit-Life.com, February 20, 2006

"The results of our tests reveal that two-pass compilation of SPEC CPU2000 code in Intel C++/Fortran Compiler 9.0 with PGO is generally more advantageous in terms of performance than usual single-pass compilation."

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"Linux Review: Testing the Intel C++ Compiler"
By Allen DuBoff

Linux Magazine, September 10, 2003

"Performance gains of up to approximately 30% over gcc 3.2"

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"Efficient Integer To String Conversions, Part 2"
By Matthew Wilson

C/C++ Users Journal, September 2003

"The Performance Chart is here."*

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"Speed Compiler Compiling C and C++ Programs with Intel’s Compiler"
By Scott Robert Ladd

Linux Magazine, July 2003

"Clearly, the Intel compiler shines, even for Athlon chips"

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