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Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by fsloth on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:14AM (#28154351)
"I get it, there's no money to be made in just implementing all your optimizations in clang directly."

Sounds really shortsighted. I would imagine revenue from Intel dev tools is a rounding error in Intel's complete revenue stream?

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Re:Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:48AM (#28157791)
It's a marketing tool to make their competitors look bad. That it is sometimes useful is a secondary side effect.
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