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.""

Comments

Before we damn Intel

[SlayerofGods]

Isn't it possible they just know their own product better and thus can create a better compiler for it?

Oh brother

[cheezedawg]

Another example of AMD trying to win in the marketplace through whining. There is nothing preventing AMD from releasing their own compiler. Instead they are just bitching about Intel again.

Intel doesn't come close to a monopoly in the compiler market, so I fail to see what this has to do with the antitrust suit.