FTC Announce Settlement With Intel

[tifosi]

Optimization is different from running the code in question at all. Yes, there will be codes that are customized to be hardware specific, then again, AVX is AVX... or for that matter, take any other such instruction set. Optimization is done in order to tailor a specific code to run faster on a given piece of hardware. Thanks to difference in architecture the given code may run fast or slow on one particular processor, and that is acceptable as it is but common sense. Here, the compiler is simply not running that piece of code, even if support for the same is present and that's what is wrong.

What i'm suggesting is:

if AVX {
if Intel {}
else {}
}

Something like this would not be too hard to do... only changing a few lines here and there :P Then again, it may drastically reduce the gap in performance, which is why perhaps Intel is not doing so. The current scenario should be seen as "disabling" features, rather than "lack of optimization... The latter is a pretty weak argument! I don't think any judge with any percentage of common sense will agree with this to be "lack of optimization." Then again, US lawmakers and the justice system have disappointed people a fair bit :P Not that the situation is any better in my country, but we are third world no matter what our darned ministers say...