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AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code
edxwelch writes "In AMD's recient anti-trust
lawsuit
AMD have examined the Intel compiler and found that it deliberatly runs code slower when it detects that the processor is an AMD.
"To achieve this, Intel designed the compiler to compile code
along several alternate code paths. ... By design, the
code paths were not created equally. If the program detects a "Genuine Intel" microprocessor,
it executes a fully optimized code path and operates with the maximum efficiency. However,
if the program detects an "Authentic AMD" microprocessor, it executes a different code path
that will degrade the program's performance or cause it to crash.""
That is an outragous claim! No company would stoop so low. Why, that would be like claiming that Microsoft configured its servers to give broken HTML to browsers other than Internet Explorer. That would be like saying that Apple gave away free MP3s that work in the Ipod but that crash other music players. That would be like saying that Adobe publishes pdfs that b0rk XPDF.
Anybody can see that this claim is ludicrous and that things like this just don't happen. (but I hope I'm not giving anybody any ideas.)
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In version 1.0 of my software, I always throw in some loops that just count to a million to throw in some delays. That way you can include "optimization" as a deliverable for version 2.0.
profit!
I switched back to Visual C++.
And when a Microsoft product is the lesser of two evils, you know for sure that there's something fishy going on.
I am huge AMD fan myself
Well, they do require quite a lot of cooling, don't they?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Hey, don't blame Taco, maybe the Intel perl compiler insterts random spelling errors into text strings!
On that note, was there *anything* negative that came of the Microsoft monopoly ruling?
Well for starters, Microsoft is still here.