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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:18:45 03/25/02

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On March 25, 2002 at 15:06:30, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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


That would actually be interesting info for _any_ program.  One day I am going
to tap into the hardware performance registers and capture this kind of info,
since no one really knows...




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