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Subject: Re: the empire strikes back

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 11:19:59 01/11/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 14:00:38, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On January 10, 2002 at 17:09:24, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>How is that nothing new?? What other processors have SMT, besides that one
>>super-obscure mainframe processor that isn't being made anymore and that I
>>forgot the name of?
>
>The later Alphas had. I don't think those are 'obscure'.

Wrong. The project was recently killed.

Eugene

>>>>Besides, how do you know it's even possible to make a smarter chip than the P3?
>>>Even Intel seems to think so given the Itanium. The first benchmarks
>>>weren't exactly encouraging though. I hope that improves with the next
>>>generations soon.
>>
>>The Itanium doesn't get higher ILP from x86 code. Apples and oranges.
>
>It doesn't necessarily have to run x86 code. But it has to be affordable
>and reasonbly well supported.
>
>--
>GCP



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