And the billion dollar question is: does the code generator treat AMD / Intel CPUs as equivalent when generating code or does it only look at Intel CPU-specific

And the billion dollar question is: does the code generator treat AMD / Intel CPUs as equivalent when generating code or does it only look at Intel CPU-specific information for generating code? see https://techreport.com/news/does-intels-compiler-cripple-amd-performance/ https://techreport.com/news/does-intels-compiler-cripple-amd... [update] and https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/440ze8/amd_cpus_and_intel_compilers/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/440ze8/amd_cpus_and_in...