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Bothered me when I realized that maybe mainstream reviews (the ones able influence the average mass market buyer) were using binaries very biased in favor of intel.

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What bothers me is that if a mainstream reviewer benchmarks ICC compiled programs, well, that isn't unfair. Real world programs are compiled with that compiler. AMD processors actually WILL under-perform on certain programs because of this.

That leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

How much ICC compiled binaries represent ? I guess on MS Windows it's the vast majority so you're right[1] but on other platform it's probably GCC/Clang, and there neither Intel or AMD are favorited.

[1] or maybe not ? are MS Cxx compilers inheriting from Intel ones ?

No, Microsoft make their own compilers.

Maybe any program compiled with ICC should have the same disclaimer as ICC itself so people know that the program is biased.

well, personally I don't think that's enough. I'm amazed they got away with the plea bargain they did.

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