Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:01:45
Message-Id: C2E12D5F-871A-48A5-B913-72F2F6C1260D@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox. by Bill Longman
1 On 24 Sep 2010, at 20:15, Bill Longman wrote:
2 >>> ...
3 >>
4 >>>> Uh, what are PGO and ICC??
5 >>>>
6 >>>> I also must add that I get decent performance from the fox on
7 >>>> Ubuntu let alone Vista, which makes me take your suggestion about
8 >>>> build parameters seriously.
9 >>> ICC is the Intel C compiler.
10 >>
11 >> Ahh.. I've heard good things about it, but I'm under the impression
12 >> it is not free (as in beer). Is that true?
13 >>
14 > I don't know but I can emerge -q icc
15
16 There is other non-Free software you can install with Portage.
17
18 Just yesterday I was looking at games-fps/ut2003 and games-fps/ut2004 - I believe these require the game's installer CDs to work.
19
20 I would imagine that if you were to emerge ICC it would require an activation key before it would compile anything, otherwise we'd all be using it.
21
22 Stroller.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox. Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox. Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>