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I think its even simpler than that. They don't want to reveal any of their secret sauce through available source be it tipping off competitors to hardware designs or just revealing compiler optimizations they believe are valuable enough to keep as trade secrets. Why would they make AMD's job easier?

Intel's C compiler has always played games with non-intel x86 architectures compared to their own.




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