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> they just don't have a reason about why they should improve their competition I don't think this is quite true. While their compiler team does care a lot ab
by nordsieck 7y ago
> they just don't have a reason about why they should improve their competition
I don't think this is quite true.
While their compiler team does care a lot about benchmarks, ultimately, they sell compilers. Some users won't use their compilers if they are too bad at running code on AMD's CPUs: often times 95th percentile performance is more important than median or mean.
- zepearl 7y agoMmmhh, I have doubts about this - e.g. that their business that sells compilers isn't as important as the one that sells CPUs. There would be of course an indirect long-term effect etc... .
- philjohn 7y agoTheir compiler is to sell their own chips. They lost a FTC case about this, and their solution was to add smallprint that said when running compiled code on non Intel CPU's it "may" not perform as well. There are ways to patch ICC produced binaries to disable this genuineintel patch. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2010/08/ftc-settles-charges-anticompetitive-conduct-against-intel https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2010/08/ftc-s...