D, Intel and AMD

[evilrat]

On Wednesday, 30 October 2013 at 17:16:17 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> 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.

but shouldn't Celeron compared to Sempron, and not Athlon? O_o