using icc instead of visual c++ or mingw

[Ralf Habacker]

Am 25.06.2012 11:19, schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
> On Sunday 24 June 2012 Jun, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> Am 19.06.2012 19:16, schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
>>> Does anyone know whether anyone has actually already tried to build kde on windows with intel's icc? It's an expensive compiler, but it could give interesting performance benefits (especially since msvc-compiled krita on windows is so much slower than on Linux).
>> Is it sure, that the performance problem depends on the created
>> instructions ? There may be other reasons why a kde application runs
>> slow on windows.
> No, not sure. But I might be getting my hands on some licenses, and I was wondering whether icc had been used before, whether there were gotchas.
There are more detailed benchmarks at 
http://willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml, may be this helps
Additional there are some notes on stackoverflow for example 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1733627/anyone-here-has-benchmarked-intel-c-compiler-and-gcc

BTW: 
http://www.krita.org/item/115-krita-on-windows-the-next-step?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+krita%2Fnews+%28Krita+-+Open+Source+Image+Creation+Powered+by+KDE%29 
- nice stuff :-)

Regards
  Ralf