Re: Intel Compiler Reimbursement Fund

On 2/6/2011 3:37 AM, FX wrote:
It was, and still is, the Math Kernel Library that has the speed bump.

I don't know whether the MKL had it, but the runtime library of the
compiler itself happily performed this naughty check, as explained for
example in http://www.swallowtail.org/naughty-intel.shtml (the vectorized
math library was part of the compiler runtime, not MKL).

Interesting. The final statement that Intel should not be allowed to restrict its compiler to Intel processors is bunk, although that would be a stupid thing to do.
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