Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 15:55:46 03/26/02
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On March 26, 2002 at 18:31:50, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >>Well lets not split hairs on this, I think the alpha was designed primarily to >>do floating point ops. It is still pretty fast on the integers though: >>http://www.redhill.net.au/hw-cpu-test-nonx86.html > >The primary design philosophy of all 64-bit RISC processors is pretty much >straight FP performance. Some of the chips relatively suck at integer >operations, Alpha doesn't. So you question the graph? You want me to find more? >Most programs are not using 64-bit integers, so this doesn't affect them much. >The biggest speedup for them comes from having twice as many registers to work >with. I thought we _were_ talking about Crafty type programs, naturally M$ Word won't benefit a whole lot, that is obvious. -S.
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