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>No effort to make other chips perform eiher better or worse is expended. This is not true. Intel compilers cripple non-intel CPUs on purpose, they generate co
by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 7y ago
>No effort to make other chips perform eiher better or worse is expended.
This is not true. Intel compilers cripple non-intel CPUs on purpose, they generate code that literally checks whether CPUID is equal to "GenuineIntel" and if it isn't, it executes the less optimized code path[1].
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Recepti...