In a new blog post today, Bard Farstad follows up a previous entry on getting Apache/PHP/APC working on an Intel Mac with some stats from his new try with the latest compiler version from Intel.

Now I have gotten the new soon to be released Intel C++ compiler version 10 from the guys at Intel and things are working much better now. I used the same machine and same setup as in my last post just with the new Intel compiler installed.

The installation itself is quite simple just click through the wizard and when you are done you need to export some environment variables and set the CC compiler variable [...] then you compile Apache, PHP and APC as normal

He includes some stats as well, showing about a 2 request per second jump with the new compile (21% difference for template processing too).