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Subject: Re: Dual AMD v Intel Was Re: Here is the comparison !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:24:39 12/01/02

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On December 01, 2002 at 16:47:27, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On December 01, 2002 at 12:37:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>I haven't "chosen" anything, in fact.  I just wrote the code.  It has a pretty
>>high memory bandwidth requirement, by design, and AMD is simply lagging there.
>>It wasn't intended to be that way but Intel has done some good things with
>>memory and it shows, at least for Crafty...
>
>Of course it shows that you've developed it on Intel's instead of AMD's (in the
>x86 world). You might not be concious of this, but it's still a choice. If you'd
>happen to have Athlons instead, you would have wondered why somethings were
>slow, and tried to improve them. It's not like a program like Crafty cannot be
>done on Athlons. There are many SMP programs that works better on Athlons than
>on P4s. Memoryintensive applications too.
>
>/David


Actually that did not happen.  Crafty was initially developed on a cray.
A real 64 bit machine.  With more bandwidth in one processor than a roomfull
of PCs...




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