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My experience on x64 has been that Sun is usually competitive with GCC/ICC, but not clearly better. Sun's C99 compiler does really atrocious things with SSE intrinsics, strange since their C++ compiler handles intrinsics almost as well as GCC/ICC. Note that they also work fine on Linux.



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