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A lot depends on the climate where you live. That translucent plastic is fairly resistant to splitting due to freezing, but in the heat prevalent where I live, it tends to become brittle and crack in a just a couple of years. A good compression connection can be made using either the plastic or copper - just be sure to cut the plastic square ( I use a razor blade ), and use the brass insert that should come with the fitting. Under the house it will not be exposed to a lot of heat, wherever you live, so the end-to-end run using plastic is the option I'd choose, given your choices. For my own house, though, I'd redo the entire run in copper, or extend the CPVC piping under the house up to a floor valve behind the fridge and use plastic from there. But that's just me...
Go with the plastic; it will be fine, I'm sure. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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This poll of sorts is leaning toward the polyethylene tubing. A local plumbing supply recommended I replace the line with the plastic rather than couple the copper.
They cater to the trade and close early, so I had my wife stop by to pick up some plastic ferrules - they gave them to her for free and threw in some brass inserts. Definitely a different kind of business attitude than Home Depot!
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Good move! But I still like Home Depot. I've got a slab of concrete to pour and finish, and it was the only place in the area where I could find a float and a fresno to do the job. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Use the compression brass fittings. I always use solder, but I am a real man, but for you girlies the compression fittings are OK.
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I haven't sweated a joint (silver solder, no less) in roughly three decades. Considering where the work is to be done and that I no longer have the equipment to do such work (i.e., my glass-blowing torch, &etc), I'll just have to pass on doing it the manly way.
Last night, in honor of the definitive answers I received, I drank a large cup of white wine with dinner, watched some TV, and went to sleep (passed out?). It was good.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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"No chance. You'll lose it."
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Both copies!
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Stupid librarian - give 'em to him so we're rid of 'em - the books of course 
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But I couldn't put it down.
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So you'll let it suffer then? You Monster!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Anyone using the Intel C++ Compiler?
Is it really anything more than a wrapper over Microsoft compiler. Does it provide anything of note other than optimised math libraries?
I've been trying it out for 64 bit Windows builds which is just about working and I was wondering if it's any good for cross compiling. It seems to have some attempted GCC compatibility but I can't really see why if it back-ends onto cl anyway?
Not a programming question, just fishing for relevant experiences.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I don't use it (anymore). Last time I tried it, it was significantly better than MSVC. But that was back when MSVC couldn't really be taken seriously.
From what I could find quickly, it seems that MSVC does not use AVX/AVX2 when auto-vectorizing, but ICC can.
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I guess that's where you'd expect Intel to be up to scratch and MSVC was certainly horribly out of date in terms of backend instruction set usage until fairly recently.
At the moment the only differences I've encountered are a few corner cases with the linker. xilink seems to be pretty strict, picking up a few things that ld from MinGW-GCC 4.7.1 missed.
I have one particularly nasty template related linker conundrum where MSVC, GCC, Clang and Embarcadero all behave differently with MSVC being the most relaxed, happily accepting what is clearly incorrect code and actually making a working executable and GCC being the devil's own nightmare to make work as it keeps changing its mind on whether to instantiate templates or not dependent on some hidden internal state.
Clang is the only one so far that actually accepts what is in my opinion correct code but it's linker is essentially non operational on Windows so I can't test the link. Embarcadero also spits its dummy over me trying to dllexport functions written in header files so I can't check the link there but I know it will require me to manually add a hand written explicit default destructor for every template instantiation 
Anyway I'm rambling 'cause I'm waiting for the link to complete again it it's just dropped. Looks good, I'm liking xilink
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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That all sounds very familiar..
It's like compilers each have their own unique personality, in a way.
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Ah, that would explain GCC then, why it's such a cross compiler. It suffers from multiple personality disorder, which must be why you need a __gxx_personality() function in the C++ support library to find out which one it is today. 
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Matthew Faithfull wrote: Is it really anything more than a wrapper over Microsoft compiler.
It's definitely not a wrapper over Microsoft compiler; I believe the front-end is licensed from EDG. Historically, it used to have some advanced optimizations that MSVC lacked, but I don't know whether it is still the case.
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Interesting. The docs I've read say is calls cl.exe to 'do the things the Intel compiler can't do' 
In practice it moans like mad if cl is not in the path but seems to go ahead and compile anyway although not to link which is more confusing as the docs say both that it uses link.exe, the Microsoft linker and that it uses xilink which is clearly not a wrapper for link.exe as it behaves quite differently.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I did an evaluation of icc about 18 months ago. It is it's own thing. I never ran across any reference that it used cl.exe nor did I see it do so. It was the best compiler I've used, by far (with one oddball exception.) The downside is that you get the best optimization only if you are targeting Intel processors (which we were.)
The oddball exception was a function where icc tried to persist a temporary value in a loop. I tried tricking icc into not doing this, but nothing worked. In the end, I was laid off and the project cancelled, so it didn't much matter anyway.
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Interesting. It's certainly building smaller binaries than MSVC or MinGW-GCC and build times are comparable with MSVC 11 without multiprocessor build.
The linker did a good job up to a point but now it's failing to find a vtable for the type_info class so nothing is working.  Elephanting link issues. Maybe the binaries are smaller because it's throwing away vtables when it shouldn't 
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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... But I was a day too late.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You should've tried to buy some time.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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He could have bought some time, but he was busy clocking at work.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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"Sid adores gin when uncoordinated."(12)&Lit
Oooh, an &Lit!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
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