>Additionally, the excellent Intel C compiler focuses on their own processors
This is a new and creative use of the word "excellent" to mean Intel are so dishonest they have been caught out using their compiler as malware delivery to make /your/ compiled binary test for an Intel cpu when being run by /your/ customer and if it finds your executable binary being run on a competitor, eg amd, makes the code run every slow path despite the optimised code running fast on that cpu.
Wildly dishonest. Malware delivery mechanism are somewhat more traditional uses of the English language to describe the Intel compiler.
You cannot trust Intel. They've earned that reputation all by themselves.
It's sneaky, it behaves badly and counter to the user's interests, and because it's a compiler, it propagates that bad behavior (though not in a self-reproducing viral fashion). It's fairly mild on the scale of malware—I'd rank it slightly less bad than adware, but roughly on par with AV software that deletes any tools it deems to be for piracy purposes.
This is a new and creative use of the word "excellent" to mean Intel are so dishonest they have been caught out using their compiler as malware delivery to make /your/ compiled binary test for an Intel cpu when being run by /your/ customer and if it finds your executable binary being run on a competitor, eg amd, makes the code run every slow path despite the optimised code running fast on that cpu.
Wildly dishonest. Malware delivery mechanism are somewhat more traditional uses of the English language to describe the Intel compiler.
You cannot trust Intel. They've earned that reputation all by themselves.