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Subject: Re: Manufacturers use Intel compilers to make AMD Opterons fly -LOL

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:24:08 04/28/03

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On April 28, 2003 at 16:08:32, Sean Mintz wrote:

>Just as a note, intel's version 5 compiler is -great- on AMD processors. It
>really makes fast executables. Past version 5, the resulting executables are
>really bad on AMD processors. Crafty, for example, won't use more than 80 %
>processor. It should always use 100%.


There is something wrong there.  A compiler can't affect cpu utilization.  The
only thing that can cause that is (a) crafty doing I/O which only happens on
table base probes, or for paging when hash is too large;  (b) some other
application stealing cycles via the O/S.

A compiler can produce an inferior instruction stream, but it can't make the
program less "cpu-bound".




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