It's 2016 and COMPILERS ARE STILL STUPID

Just analysing a device driver for hardware few months old... as usual, it's as bloated as a week-old dead pig overall but then I come across pieces like this:

shl ecx, 4
mov edx, ecx
shr ecx, 2
xor eax, eax
rep stosd
mov ecx, edx
and ecx, 3
rep stosb

:facepalm:

>>9

Does the fact that ICC pwns the shit out of every other compiler mean anything?

Yes, it means that it costs $700. If Intel wanted it to be used, they would make it free, or at least cheaper. As it stands, Intel clearly wants most software to be as shitty as possible (why else keep their most useful manuals proprietary) so that they can sell more chips, while still milking the high end market's addiction to their bloated instruction set by selling morbidly expensive compilers and manuals.

Intel will be punished one day, and AMD as well for inventing x64 and letting everyone beat that dead horse even more.