Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 15:28:51 03/27/02
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Some of the Spec2k int benchmarks are very sensitive to the memory latency. Take a look at the submitted Spec2k results for Itanium. There are results for HP-UX (where pointers are 32-bit) and Windows (where pointers are 64-bit). Look at the MCF. MCF is *very* sensitive for memory latency. For 32-bit pointers it's much faster than for 64-bit ones; of course different compilers were used, but believe me, main reason is much better cache utilization when pointers are smaller. And now look at the MCF result for POWER4. It's unproportinally high. I believe that's because entire dataset was in the L3 cache. Memory latency for the Spec2k FP is much less important than for the Spec2k int -- and that's true for almost any FP application. Eugene On March 27, 2002 at 14:21:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 26, 2002 at 23:45:17, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>I agree that POWER4 is good processor, I just cannot believe it's so much better >>than others. > >It's not THAT much better than the others. It's slower than a 21264C @ 1.3GHz, >assuming linear speedup. I find that very believable. I don't think the cache >really matters. Maybe on SPECfp. > >-Tom
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