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I assume you're referring to Intel's robust history of "Intellectual Property" lawsuits? Agreed. ISPC is under a BSD license, but I wonder if there's a lawsuit
by insulanus 7y ago
I assume you're referring to Intel's robust history of "Intellectual Property" lawsuits?
Agreed. ISPC is under a BSD license, but I wonder if there's a lawsuit to be made from the use of the techniques.
- frostburg 7y agoHe's probably referring to Intel compilers outputting code designed to slow down CPUs from other makers.
- amiga-workbench 7y agoAnd this is an even bigger issue because several popular benchmarking tools were compiled with ICC, skewing CPU reviews in Intel's favour.
- wolfgke 7y ago> And this is an even bigger issue because several popular benchmarking tools were compiled with ICC, skewing CPU reviews in Intel's favour. A benchmark whose speed also depends on a compiler is not a benchmark of the CPU, but of a combination compiler/CPU. If this is not written down (and, of course, also written down which compiler was used), it is a deception of the reader.
- rbanffy 7y agoDuring the UNIX wars, it was suspected many companies tuned their compilers to generate unrealistically fast code for common benchmarks.
- ncmncm 7y agoAll benchmarks depend on both the CPU and the compiler -- except those coded in assembly language. Everybody knows it, so it is not (by itself) a deception.