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by justicezyx 1778 days ago
Well competition is good for consumers but is not for the actual market players. And what's the point of competing in the compiler space?
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> And what's the point of competing in the compiler space?

To an extent, processor vendors sell CPU's based on how they perform on SPEC{int,fpu}. So what matters is not how fast your HW is, but rather on how fast the combination of HW + compiler is.