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If the original patch contained a benchmark showing that it was slower on the current AMD processors then this would be a reasonable argument.

It did not, because no such testing was done.

I think there's a pretty low baseline of effort they can put in. I also think that if they enabled new code paths for newer instructions that turned out to be slower on AMD, very few people would claim this was Intel being evil. Most would blame AMD for selling a defective product.




I would argue it's absurd ask for Intel to maintain test platforms for a competitor.

At best you could ask them to flag platform specific code in such a way that others, who are better equipped, can test against other platforms.




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