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Subject: Re: Processor news.

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 09:31:18 08/12/00

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On August 12, 2000 at 05:45:15, Dan Andersson wrote:

>In short, don't expect superior performance from P4. A 1.2 MHz Athlon or PIII
>could outperform a 1.4 -1.5 MHz P4. IMO, not surprising as the pipeline is
>beginning to get ridiculously deep.
>Links:
>http://www.inqst.com/p4roadmap.htm
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12518.html

I expect that the bitboard programs will benefit more since there is less
branching associated with them and hence the pipeline can be easily predicted




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