"This benchmarking article marks the beginning of an ongoing project to track the quality of programming tools for the Linux environment. As significant events occur, I will update this article, shifting past results to archive pages.
"At this time, I'm testing two Linux-based C and C++ compilers: GNU's Compiler Collection (GCC), and Intel's C++ product. GCC is, of course, released under the GNU Public License, and I own a commercial license for the Intel compiler..."