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Enhanced compilers specifically for AMD chips, in the same spirit as Intel's ICC. Except open source, ideally, based on LLVM/GCC. I'm guessing this would let me
by bkeroack 12y ago
Enhanced compilers specifically for AMD chips, in the same spirit as Intel's ICC. Except open source, ideally, based on LLVM/GCC. I'm guessing this would let me take (more) advantage of the greater raw core count on Opteron vs Xeon. At least it would be an arguing point in favor of AMD--the only one I can see now is cost.
- e28eta 12y agoSounds like you're advocating a different compiler ("based on"). Why not contribute directly to LLVM or GCC? Are there optimizations they'd need to do that are incompatible with the wider goals of the open source project? I'm assuming the projects would be happy to accept new optimizations.