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> are you sure it will do anything at all? I am not. The current setup, while objectively sucks for engineers is still quite capable and it works

go back in time to before gcc - i'm 100% sure people were saying the exact same thing about borland (or whatever).

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I don't recall anyone being "objectively-sucks" level of unhappy with proprietary C compilers. Moving to gcc was often a regression -- because it was much slower to run and sometimes generated worse code -- for developers used to Turbo C or CodeWarrior-style IDEs.

AFAIK when it comes to using the features of recent CPU architectures, Intel's compilers produce more performant / efficient code than GCC or Clang.

A sufficiently smart compiler requires ever more clever compiler writers who are deeply knowledgeable about the many quirks of the numerous architectures.

> Intel's compilers produce more performant / efficient code than GCC or Clang

Intel's compiler are clang forks.

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