Quote Originally Posted by alfaunits View Post
No, it is their job to make sure their code works on non-Intel CPUs - that's where it ends. It's not their job to even make it possible for the best code path to be run. Nor is it even their job or obligation of any kind to even make it possible to run the fastest code path on non-Intel CPUs.

Does their default code work slower than the code compiled by default with MSVC++ or GCC++? Is ICC++ making code that has lines of code not needed? No.
even though its a bit old, i just leave this here... (note: this is run on a amd cpu)

http://www.usenetbinaries.com/doc/gc...arks_perl.html