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Subject: Re: Hammer info. And som SMP musings.

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:08:32 03/24/02

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On March 24, 2002 at 10:03:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>there was no jump at all. the palomino is not faster than the tbird.
>If you look well the only thing that speeded up are the compilers.

Wrong, the Palomino has a bigger TLB, prefetching, and SSE.

>64 bits cpu's we won't see soon.
> a) they are hell slow because they are clocked low
> b) it is very expensive

Wrong, Hammer will clock higher than the AXP and Clawhammer prices will be
similar.

>Even the mckinley (if you can pay it) will be only available at 1Ghz
>initially is what intel says now.

Who was talking about McKinley? And where did you get 1GHz? Their target has
been 1.2GHz for years.

>Of course you can't compare this with P4, which simply has
>lobotomized its L1 data cache somehow and also RDRAM runs at
>a slow 100Mhz with 15T latency.

Quad-pumped 100MHz = effective 400MHz, and latency depends on the pages you're
accessing.

-Tom



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