CVF 6.6B Run Time Libraries and Compiles

[Intel_C_Intel]

I recently updated one machine I have to CVF 6.6B Pro. Wow! The compile times of my big project went from an hour (using 6.1.?) to 15 minutes or so with 6.6B. I keep looking for compiler switches that could have been changed unintentionally, but haven't found any. Anybody else have this experience? The projects have a few dozen console executables that do many system calls and the executables are left in debug mode.

Also, has anyone tried running the CVF 6.1 compiler/development studio on a machine that has had the 6.6 distributable run time installed? I will likely run into that prospect in the near future. Any reason to thing this will not work? Thanks.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If your program uses DFWIN or other large modules, you would have definitely seen a compile time improvement as of 6.5. We also made improvements throughout the compiler over the past three years (6.1 is from 1999.) A good reason to keep up to date!

I know of no reason the combination of 6.1 compiler and 6.6B runtime shouldn't work.

Steve

[Intel_C_Intel]

Thanks for the expedient reply, Steve. I am pushing to get all our copies of CVF updated, but I will have to deploy some programs written with 6.6B that will likely end up on machines with previous versions of the CVF. If I do run into unexpected problems, I'll let you know.