compiler reimbursement fund?

[anthonyrichards]

According to the reading of the FTC decision given here (http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/08/06/more-intel-dirt-cleaned-ftc/), Intel have to set aside $10m fund to pay customers who have to recompile their code to get optimized performance, where the customer runs the code on non-Intel processors because in the past Intel's compilers would not optimize, or would actually de-optimize, code where the processor was not Intel's, without telling the customer of this situation. Is that correct?

[Wendy_Doerner__Intel]

The information about this is posted in the sticky thread at the top of this forum.

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Wendy

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[anthonyrichards]

The sticky thread post just points you to the FTC judgement, which of course is written in legalese. In so far as it addresses compiler shortcomings, I was hoping that a simplified expression of the gist of the legalese would be supplied. The link I posted appears to do that and I was hoping that you could confirm that it was (1) esentially correct in its interpretation of the judgement, or (2) a scurrulously incorrect misreading of it or (3) neither, or (4) both?.

[Ron_Green]

Intel does not comment on articles such as the one for which you posted a link. What you may wish to do is read our Optimization Notice: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/optimization-notice/

ron