Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:41:17 04/21/03
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On April 21, 2003 at 14:46:27, Aaron Gordon wrote: >>Not really. Processors have their strengths and weaknesses. I'm sure you could >>find some pathological code that runs much slower on the Athlon than the P4. > >If you find anything, let me know. So far I know of nothing. I however know >of *MANY* things that run pitiful on a p4. IIRC, a game of life thing I wrote a few months ago ran 2-3x slower on my AXP 2000+ than on my 2.2GHz P4. Also I think the P4 has won pretty much every media encoding benchmark I've seen, often by large margins. >Intel C is much faster than gcc and slightly faster than VC in my tests. I find >Intel C 5.0.1 faster for Athlons but what AMD used for the testing was the >latest, 7.0. Yeah, so the question is, does 64-bit gcc Crafty run faster than 32-bit VC or Intel C Crafty? If the answer is no, then we're going to be waiting for a while for x86-64 to improve anything. Considering x86-64 Windows will be out sometime this year, I imagine x86-64 VC will be, too. I doubt MS would produce an OS and not give users a way to write native programs for it. -Tom
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