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Subject: Re: Question to Dr. Robert Hyatt

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 15:32:38 05/20/03

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On May 19, 2003 at 17:18:13, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>(5) - GCC, and I believe VC, have been compiling 64-bit binaries for some time.

I don't know a great deal about what makes a good compiler, so maybe you or
someone else can comment. GCC or VC++ may be able to compile code that will run
on the Opteron, but will it be optimized well? There are a lot more registers
than there are in the Athlon/P4 (16 64-bit GPR's, 16 128-bit XMM, 8 64-bit MMX).
If you take the current GCC or VC.NET and compile, say, Crafty on an Opteron,
will it take advantage of all of the new specs? I assume that at the very least,
it would take advantage of the extra GPR's and larger cache?



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