The fact that MKL is the highest performing library has nothing to do with the quality of icc's output. It is a myth that icc produces faster binaries that may have been true 25 years ago.
That was the story 10 years ago as well, yet I have never managed to find an open source program where the Intel compiler has produced faster code than gcc back then, too. gcc has always produced faster code for at…
The fact that MKL is the highest performing library has nothing to do with the quality of icc's output. It is a myth that icc produces faster binaries that may have been true 25 years ago.
That was the story 10 years ago as well, yet I have never managed to find an open source program where the Intel compiler has produced faster code than gcc back then, too. gcc has always produced faster code for at…