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Re:Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software? by p0nce on Sunday October 15, 2017 @07:24AM (#15476695)
Hex Rays and ICC are unmatched. Once you have worked with ICC backend you'll miss it a lot when using say, LLVM. Same story for IDA, I don't think any competitor does something at this level. Photoshop is being displaced by nimbler competitors.
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Re:Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software? by earenndil on Monday October 16, 2017 @12:42AM (#15480871)
The one time I used icc (I got it for free, and wanted to play with it, and I had an application for which perf was relevant), it had significantly worse performance than clang, which trailed just behind gcc. In what way is it unmatched?
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Re:Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software? by p0nce on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:47AM (#15567466)
I used it for years. The auto-vectorizer is unmatched imho. It has a very systematic way to turn loops into incredibly tight code. I use LLVM 4.x and this is very far from ICC.
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Re:Ask HN: Who is the target audience for ~$1000 software? by edanm on Sunday October 15, 2017 @10:47AM (#15477316)
Who do you see displacing Photoshop?

I think Photoshop is still the standard for most things, although I've seen some movement in specific segments (e.g. UX and graphic design).

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