Re: [iiwusynth-devel] Is this too good to be true?

[Stephane Letz]

>Wow, I just found a message posted to a mailing list that mentioned the
>following gcc switches:
>
>-mmmx -msse -msse2 -m3dnow
>
>It appears that these exist for at least gcc 3.2 (well thats the version
>I have, donno about earlier ones). "man gcc" confirms that these
>switches enable optimizations for the corresponding technologies. I'm
>not sure if this is already being taken advantage of with my iiwusynth
>build, but I have noticed iiwusynth taking very little CPU time.. Cool
>beans!  Must test more.. Cheers.
>       Josh Green
>
>

I think we should try the Intel ICC compiler for iiwusynth

http://developer.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c60l/noncom.htm

ICC compiler does automatic vectorization, thus allowing C code to be
compiled using sse sse2 vector instructions.


Stephane Letz




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