D, Intel and AMD

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 30 00:43:06 PDT 2013


On 29 October 2013 20:35, Chris <wendlec at tcd.ie> wrote:

> Are there any major differences in how D fares on AMD processors as
> opposed to Intel? The usual story is that Intel is faster and more precise
> when it comes to arithmetic operations (although I suspect that Intel is
> also very good at PR ;) Has anyone come across D related issues that are
> peculiar to one or the other architecture or brand?
>


The only peculiarity I've found is that code ran on Intel Atom is slower
with the -O switch on DMD.  (There's a bug report somewhere for that).

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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