Intel compilers performance over itanium 2 (madison)

Hi all,

First all, maybe this is not the correct group to post this but I think
here's people who can help with my probs.
Well, I have a SGI Altix system with 8 madison 1.3 GHz procs. FP
applications runs fine with 7.1 intel compilers but integer applications
runs badly. We have a big C++ application and with this system the
performance is even lower than a Origin 3200 based on R12000 400MHz
processors. Some one can think that intel compiler sucks and exploring the
assembed code really sucks. Not only because the poor IPC achieved (bellow
0.7) but loking in code you can see that sequences like:

        int Class::method(Boolean a)
       { return (a ? 1:0);}

The intel VTune says thats this code has a very low IPC but not only this.
The asembled code is huge for this method. In fact if you use if(){}else{}
sentence legth is roughly one half. Obviously my code has a lot of these
sentences.... and much of the slowdown is caused by this.  I cant understand
how is the compiler so bad. Some one has similar experience with these
compilers or i'm stupid (or my code is a crap)?.

Thanks in advance... and please... if some one at SGI read this... make a
decent compiler (such as MIPSPro) (BTW a decent profiler... I miss
SpeedShop)
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vpuente