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> And here they are.
There is a Perl script (misc/cmplog.pl) to generate relative results.
> Notice that putpixel is significantly faster for the intel compiler, but
> some ofthe other primitives are not for SOLID drawing. ICC is consistently
> faster for all other drawing modes.
>
> ICC is consistently slower for blitting but roughly on par or slightly
> faster for sprite drawing. The compiled sprite functionality is a freak
> due to the fact that the ICC version is compiled without compiled sprite
> support because it compiled without inline asm support.
>
> Of course, this is only one benchmark and I wouldn't suggest that this is
> solid enough to base any real conclusions on. ICC may also have some
> specialized optimization options worth investigating I have not looked at
> here.
Interesting.  I'd have thought that many of these tests were not really 
sensitive to compiler optimizations.
-- 
Eric Botcazou