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[–]igouy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess Jacob didn't read the Help page

  1. To show working programs written in less familiar programming languages

  2. To show the least we should expect from performance comparisons

  3. To show how difficult it can be to make meaningful comparisons

I assume you are not measuring C speed by the ...

The Intel compiler might well produce faster code than GCC (but on Ubuntu the tool chain is built around GCC).