AMD presents "The Bulldozer Blog"

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Intel's compiler work perfectly well for AMD witht he right switches...

Works... and works perfectly well are two different things...
Read:
http://www.osnews.com/story/22683/In...from_Compiler_
and,
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/revi...o-review.ars/6

The same code on the same processor with a differnt vendor id, ran 10% less efficiently

Intel's compiler does not bother to check for support. It uses the familly code bits, e.g it optimizes for Core, Northwood, PPro,Prescott,etc. The code it creates takes into account all the peculiarities for the given uarch.
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What any compiler ideally should do especially when it comes to instruction sets is check for support... otherwise, what is the point of having a standard, if no one is to follow it. What you're talking about is code optimization...

I fail to see how this nonsense can be extracted from my "demeanour" and what's the point you're trying to make.
If you believe politics do not interfere with regulators, you need to get out of the house more. I suppose you don't see any connection between AMD/GF building a FAB in NY and the Cuomo case ?

I'm sorry about the earlier remark , this one specifically... but you do see pun was intended... nothing personal. Then again, i meant to imply that if Intel knew they did no wrong, why'd they agree to such terms with AMD?

Who is dumb enough to buy Intel's compilers when targeting the broadest base possible ? You use MS or GCC.

Apparently a lot of people who make benchmarking tools, whom we rely upon :P