D, Intel and AMD

[Kagamin]

On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 at 20:35:26 UTC, Chris 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?

I once changed an Athlon-based machine to a Celeron-based. If I 
remember dhrystone benchmarks correctly, the drop in ALU 
performance was significant.