On 10 June 2015 at 19:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> On 09/06/15 17:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>> i remember one of the GCC team >>> members showing the middlefinger that they simply wanted to keep intel >>> ahead of >>> AMD in terms of speed and take care that GCC couldn't rival other >>> compilers in >>> terms of speed (the implication of not doing this optimization in branchy >>> codes). ... > QED - Quod Erat Demonstrandum - (which had to be proven) I don't understand what you think you've proven (that a GCC developer intentionally keeps GCC slow so that Intel is faster than AMD?!) but it seems like irrelevant ramblings that aren't very helpful on this list. Maybe you should find somewhere else to air your conspiracy theories.