[MPFR] Does anybody have MPFR/GMP compiled with Intel C++ on Windows?

[Brian Gladman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael" <comtech.usa at gmail.com>
To: <mpfr at loria.fr>; <gmp-discuss at swox.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 5:14 PM
Subject: [MPFR] Does anybody have MPFR/GMP compiled with Intel C++ on 
Windows?


> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for the Intel C++ compilation of MPFR/GMP on Windows
> integrated with Visual Studio 2003 or 2005. Does anybody have such a
> compilation? I am curious about the performance comparison also.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help!

I have a version of GMP that uses the Intel compiler running under Microsoft 
Visual Studio 2005.  But I have not yet compiled MPFR in this way (it should 
not be too hard now that GMP has been done).

Interestingly with all the assembler support, it would not normally make 
much difference whether the Microsoft or the Intel compiler is used. But 
this turns out not to be true for x64 native Windows builds.

Microsoft have made the 'braindead' decision not to provide x64 inline 
assembler support in their x64 compiler and this prevents taking advantage 
of a number of GMP inline assembler macros.

Fortunately, however, the latest version of the Intel Windows compiler does 
have x64 inline assembler AND it can compile both Microsoft and GCC style 
inline assembler instructions.  As a result, a small change one gmp file 
allows the existing GCC style x64 inline assembler code in GMP to be used in 
a native Windows build.  And the resulting build does improve on the speed 
of the Microsoft build. In particular the division code for small operands 
is significantly faster.

I have not yet published my Intel build files for GMP as this only became 
possible recently with the new version of the Intel compiler.  Also, as I 
said earlier, I have yet to converty the MPFR build.

    Brian Gladman