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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:06:30 03/25/02

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On March 25, 2002 at 08:08:44, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>Using the same compiler i do not see speed difference between
>palomino and tbird for DIEP, so this TLB, prefetching is

Who cares about Diep?

>>Wrong, Hammer will clock higher than the AXP and Clawhammer prices will be
>>similar.
>When did the 64 bits hype start, 1994?
>It's 2002 now and we won't see a hammer in the shops before 2003.

Yes, we will, and 64-bit processors have been around since the early 90s, why?

>>Who was talking about McKinley? And where did you get 1GHz? Their target has
>>been 1.2GHz for years.
>Exactly why i mentionned it, it's recently shifted to 1Ghz.

Reference?

>Not a single chessprogram that i know is busy with sequential things,
>yours is?
>Only latency is important and that's 100Mhz simply. RDRAM is hell slow

My program isn't "busy" with either. How many times does your program go to main
memory per node??

-Tom



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