It's 100% boilerplate. The whole "handicapping" debate that pops up every ICC thread is likely several years out of date (not that I don't expect to see it agai

It's 100% boilerplate. The whole "handicapping" debate that pops up every ICC thread is likely several years out of date (not that I don't expect to see it again and again for the next decade or two). Case in point, take bench completion time on a Xeon supercomputer [1]. Compare that to relative completion time on an Opteron supercomputer [2] (for both, lower is better). If that's Intel's compiler handicapping AMD performance, I wonder what GCC is trying to do? [1]: http://www.nersc.gov/users/computational-systems/edison/performance-and-optimization/compiler-comparisons/choosing-a-compiler-on-edison/ http://www.nersc.gov/users/computational-systems/edison/perf... [2]: http://www.nersc.gov/assets/_resampled/resizedimage730421-hopcmp1013.jpg http://www.nersc.gov/assets/_resampled/resizedimage730421-ho...