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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. XP

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 13:08:02 06/29/03

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On June 29, 2003 at 15:54:11, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On June 29, 2003 at 14:40:02, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>That must be why they're using 32-bit binaries that are faster than ones they
>>can compile with 64-bit.  Gotcha.
>
>I doubt people will be flocking around the Opteron to go fast with their 32 bit
>apps, so the whole thing is, as I've been saying, pointless.
>
>It is backwards compatible, this is a *nice* feature, it is however not very
>*interesting* to benchmark, certainly it should not be _the_ benchmark for this
>chip.

I never said it should be.

>Measuring specint for a new chip using a compiler that in effect cripples it, is
>not only incompetent, it's misleading, IMO.

If it's incompetent to use a compiler that makes faster binaries than another
compiler, then I think you can call everyone incompetent.



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