> The documentation says more highly optimized for Intel® microprocessors than for non-Intel microprocessors. again and again. Not just different, inferior. No

> The documentation says more highly optimized for Intel® microprocessors than for non-Intel microprocessors. again and again. Not just different, inferior. No, it's "less superior". I don't see anything wrong with this, unless somehow Intel is preventing AMD from writing their own compiler and investing more into code generation for AMD chips than Intel's. > ICC exists to sell Intel processors, one should always remember that. I think it's probably more reasonable to look at it as ICC exists to ensure that Intel can ship new features, optimizations, and instructions in their chips and not be totally dependent on 3rd parties to make them available to C/C++ programmers.