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He's probably referring to Intel compilers outputting code designed to slow down CPUs from other makers.
by frostburg 7y ago
He'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.