Author: Maurizio De Leo
Date: 06:46:14 10/02/02
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On October 02, 2002 at 05:55:39, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On October 01, 2002 at 08:00:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>Obviously the bitboard programs will profit. We can guess from alpha >>specs that it's about 33% profit. > >Really? How can we guess that? What specs? > >>A default compile from DIEP at an Itanium2/McKinley for example it is >>33% faster at it than it is at a K7 at the same clock. >>That's *very* good. Obviously it's a mixture of Level caches and especially >>doing bundles of 6 instructions a clock. > >What a load of BS. 33% faster than a 1GHz Athlon gives you 1.33GHz Athlon >performance. How is this "*very* good"? You can get a 1.33GHz Athlon on >Pricewatch for $52. > >-Tom But you can't put 8 or 16 athlon 1.33 in a multiprocessor system ! Maurizio
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