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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