[Beowulf] Re: Q&A: BeOS and IBM Cell processor

[Kozin, I (Igor)]

> 
> Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > A is trivial.
> > B is less trivial to most, but consider this. I bought a dual core
> > opteron 2.4Ghz,
> > under windows visual c++ 2005 professional edition is 10% 
> faster as it
> > seems now
> > than any compiler is under *nix.
> 
> Does '/any/ compiler under unix' include Pathscale, PGI and Intel. Did
> you also verify Intel on windows?

Most likely he is talking about integer performance and 
the statement could be true. Look at spec int 2000.