Im also at a loss as to what your big complaint with gentoo is then...
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That's cool. I'll try it too, eventually, but I think it is going to be well worth it to wait until they figure out how to use icc
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icc has been an option for gentoo for awhile now.. So Im confused as to what youre talking about here..
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The fact that gentoo, a distribution geared towards building from scratch, is having so much trouble adapting to another compiler is a bit distressing
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What troubles are you referring to? That only a few of the package builders ensure their makefiles can take advantage of icc or are capable of compiling out of the box with icc ?
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The bottom line is that icc seems to do a much better job than gcc ATM. Enough so, in fact, that I'm going to wait to start the 18 hour odyssey of building a gentoo system until it properly supports using icc.
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For INTEL systems, I'll agree with you.. How does it NOT support icc though? Do you mean that you the bootstrap system has to use gcc opposed to icc ? You can alter the ebuilds pretty leisurely if icc is cross compatible to build with if thats the case. Its very easy to manually play with and recompile glibc and the kernel if you desire, if icc is that simple, i doubt it would require that many changes to perform...
Im still confused why the linux community should rush to embrace ICC over GCC other than performance benefits. As far as ANSI compatible, so is GCC, but that doesnt mean that every package compiled on GCC is going to compile out of the box on ICC without code changes. I'd be amazed if EQEMU for example didnt require quite a free changes to compile on ICC for example (I'm more than willing to test it out).
Since you're not understanding my arguments, and apparently I'm not understanding yours, how about articulating what you expect gentoo/mandrake/debian/etc to do to 'figure out how to use icc'
Your comments make it sound like the linux community should drop GCC in favor of ICC, and thats what I'm argueing against, not that someone shouldnt investigate it's use.... I agree that better performance is ultimately a good thing, but how is it that everyone is scared away from ICC as you're making it sound?