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> Not what you had in mind, but that dirty trick compiler did give Intel and advantage. You can only pull off that trick if you already effectively own the mar
by incrudible 5y ago
> Not what you had in mind, but that dirty trick compiler did give Intel and advantage.
You can only pull off that trick if you already effectively own the market. Otherwise nobody would use your compiler, at least not exclusively.
- rbanffy 5y agoThere were dozens of incidents of compilers that looked for known benchmark code and optimized the hell out of those cases. At the time I remember some debate as to whether it was "fair", on one side people saying it was not, on the other people saying that they actually improved benchmark-like code.