The Linux Kernel Looks To Drop Support For Intel's ICC Compiler

[ryao]

What of that did they stop doing 10 years ago? ICC/ICX is still proprietary; the "optimization notice" was in fact removed, but only pretty recently; and AFAIK, fast-math is still enabled by default.

“puts certain hardware at a disadvantage on purpose”

[ryao]

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us...plete-icx.html

Intel claims to have made substantial performance improvements in certain code. It is a shame that they do not contribute those optimization passes to LLVM/Clang.