Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 21:35:16 02/22/03
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On February 22, 2003 at 23:21:44, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On February 22, 2003 at 22:40:10, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>Athlon has a big L1 cache. Athlon has lots of execution resources. It has all >>the chemistry necessary to implement HT, and I think it could make good use of >>it. > >I think so too. Apparently AMD disagrees, or they think they can benefit more >by using their resources on other things. *shrug* There could be many reasons. Intel can push software around. AMD can't. 3DNow was used prior to SSE because there was no alternative, but who uses it now? Who uses syscall? Who uses femms? Nobody. AMD may have deferred to let Intel solve all the problems, or they may not have had the resources to consider it. Who knows? -Matt
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