I'm wondering if anybody here is a good code-head...
Saw this over at the Yahoo message boards...it's a reprint from the Silicon Investor.
Yahoo message
"From 'mcmab' on SI-
From: mcmab
7/23/2005 1:23:32 PM
Intel compiler cheating
Some versions of DivX have also been compiled with the offending Intel compiler, maybe all.
When I complained on theDivX forum they promptly moved it to "off topic".
By coincidence I contributed to the open source version of DivX and made some large speedups (300-500%) so I have some creds there.
Seems to me that DivX may have known about the Compiler issue and even accepted the Intel shilling. Some 4.x versions of DivX even crashed on non-Intel processors, consistent with the bugs in the Intel 7.x compiler.
Isn't it also true that Intel pushed hardware sites to use DivX in their benchmarking? Now if all that facts are as I believe they are we have a very serious legal situation:
1. Intel knowingly slugged Athlons in their compiler
2. Intel coerced DivX into using the compiler to generate DivX
3. Intel pushed DivX as a suitable benchmark to reviewers
I hope that AMD's legal team is reading this and will do discovery on DivX and the hardware sites.
This goes beyond the allegations in the AMD complaint and enlarges the causes of action - maybe even a RICO (racketeering) penal action for those involved"
Saw this over at the Yahoo message boards...it's a reprint from the Silicon Investor.
Yahoo message
"From 'mcmab' on SI-
From: mcmab
7/23/2005 1:23:32 PM
Intel compiler cheating
Some versions of DivX have also been compiled with the offending Intel compiler, maybe all.
When I complained on theDivX forum they promptly moved it to "off topic".
By coincidence I contributed to the open source version of DivX and made some large speedups (300-500%) so I have some creds there.
Seems to me that DivX may have known about the Compiler issue and even accepted the Intel shilling. Some 4.x versions of DivX even crashed on non-Intel processors, consistent with the bugs in the Intel 7.x compiler.
Isn't it also true that Intel pushed hardware sites to use DivX in their benchmarking? Now if all that facts are as I believe they are we have a very serious legal situation:
1. Intel knowingly slugged Athlons in their compiler
2. Intel coerced DivX into using the compiler to generate DivX
3. Intel pushed DivX as a suitable benchmark to reviewers
I hope that AMD's legal team is reading this and will do discovery on DivX and the hardware sites.
This goes beyond the allegations in the AMD complaint and enlarges the causes of action - maybe even a RICO (racketeering) penal action for those involved"
