[daip] Intel compiler

[Eric Greisen]

Martin Hardcastle writes:

 > I see some mention in my MNJ logs of changes to make AIPS build with
 > the Intel compiler suite. Is this officially supported now? It doesn't
 > seem to be mentioned on the web pages. Having used the Intel compiler
 > to get significant speed-ups in other applications, I'd be keen to
 > rebuild AIPS here at Hertfordshire with it if it's considered suitable
 > for production use...

The binary version of AIPS for Linux is now compiled with the Intel
compiler.  We have found that it is sometimes too enthusiatic in
optimization and will probably be fixing things on occasion to get
around that.  The code does run some 30% faster.

Eric Greisen