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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. XP

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 18:11:06 06/30/03

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On June 30, 2003 at 20:51:58, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On June 29, 2003 at 16:57:02, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On June 29, 2003 at 16:08:02, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>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.
>>
>>Well yes, it is.
>>
>>If Carl Lewis has a broken leg, we should postpone the race until he is back in
>>shape, anything else will just be a race with a broken leg.
>>
>>It is however amazing how fast the chip is running, even with it being on
>>crutches.
>>
>>-S.
>
>It is not on crutches. The x86-64 ISA is more or less the same as the x86-32
>ISA.
>
>-Tom

Seeing is believing.

If I'm not mistaken the specint uses Crafty as an integer benchmark, obviously
this is 64-bit *integer*, hence huge difference between 332 abd 64 bit, hence
the whole thing is more or less rediculous.

-S.



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