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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