Wednesday, November 25th 2015
App Claims to Blunt Intel's Compiler Edge on AMD Machines
A ominously named app claims to boost certain apps performance on AMD processors. Called "Intel Compiler Patcher," this app scans your machine for apps developed using Intel C++ compilers, and patches them to work better on non-Intel CPU platforms (namely AMD). The idea (suspicion rather), is that apps developed with Intel C++ compilers give modern AMD CPUs a performance disadvantage. The following is how the developer describes the app works:
DOWNLOAD: Intel Compiler Patcher
The compiler or library can make multiple versions of a piece of code, each optimized for a certain processor and instruction set, for example SSE2, SSE3, etc. The system includes a function that detects which type of CPU it is running on and chooses the optimal code path for that CPU. This is called a CPU dispatcher. However, the Intel CPU dispatcher does not only check which instruction set is supported by the CPU, it also checks the vendor ID string. If the vendor string says "GenuineIntel" then it uses the optimal code path. If the CPU is not from Intel then, in most cases, it will run the slowest possible version of the code, even if the CPU is fully compatible with a better version.We don't have an AMD machine at hand to put our benches ourselves, and so we invite AMD CPU users from our community to post their results by using this "patcher" at their own risk.
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www.amdzone.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=532&t=138849
www.osnews.com/story/22683/Intel_Forced_to_Remove_quot_Cripple_AMD_quot_Function_from_Compiler_
www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cases/091216intelcmpt.pdf
I have it scanning and will run some before and after bench tests to see if a few older applications and games run better.
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and forum thread
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/intel-compiler-patcher-boosts-amd-processors-performance.217814/#post-3376631
www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?286448-The-Book-of-Bulldozer-Revelations-Episode-2-%28SuperPI-x87%29
:)
As in avoid supporting these kind of practices.
It reminds me of how EA is the "bad guy" for buying and killing bullfrog back in the day.....yet we should not forget that still to this day no new game has been made of the then acquired much loved IP's, not by EA nor by any company that undoubtedly offered to buy the IP's so they could make something out if it.
The fact that that has not changed to this day makes it still relevant and therefor EA is still today the "bad guy".
This also reminds me of Volkswagen btw, no idea how that company has not been sued and blocked out of existence yet.
2big2fail much like the banks probably.
And no, a trolling post doesn't mean that the person who posts it, is a troll. It's just fun. You have to be doing this constantly to be called a troll.
I'm not trying to start a fanboy war with that post. I just wanted someone with an AMD processor to run before-and-after tests and see if this is legit or not.