Author: Ian Kennedy
Date: 13:08:56 06/03/98
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On June 01, 1998 at 11:36:22, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>Finally, there's more X86 than just the PII. Rebel runs best on AMD, and >>they are also moving forward towards the K7. Intel will introduce 450 >>Mhz PII CPUs on July 26th AFAIR, there's still no 450 Mhz G3 machine you >>can buy. And outside mainstream, nobody really dares to challenge the >>Alphas ... > >Why do you say this?? From various SPECints that I've seen, it seems the >400 MHz Pentium II runs faster than any Alpha. > >Also, wasn't Digital taken over by Compaq and Intel? Can you even buy an >Alpha any more? > >Cheers, >Tom You certainly can. I've just bought a 633Mhz Microway Screamer and the performance is awesome. Integer based chess code compiled with Visual C++ runs about 7.5 times faster than my previous P90 but what is most impressive is the graphics performance, try something like drawing Mandelbrot sets. Incidentally I compared the same pure ANSI C chess code compiled with gcc -O2 running under Red Hat Linux/Alpha. It was 37% *slower* than fully optimized VC++ under NT/Alpha. Regards Ian Kennedy
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