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Subject: Re: Opteron > 970, Good article

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 16:21:20 06/24/03

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On June 24, 2003 at 17:02:42, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On June 24, 2003 at 14:02:02, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>On June 24, 2003 at 10:15:48, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/
>>
>>I very good laugh indeed. The guy in the article compares G5/Xeon results using
>>VeriTest compiled on gcc3.3 with Intel P4 results and another Dell WS with
>>VeriTest compiled on Intel C++ 7.0 compiler.
>>
>>
>>Compiler:
>>Intel C++ 7.0 build 20021021Z
>>        Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0.9466 (libraries)
>>
>>The AMDs may be faster but you cannot compare benchmarks compiled with different
>>compilers.
>
>I understand why you think what you do. You want to see how different CPUs
>perform running the exact same code. Allowing different binaries to be run on
>the different CPUs seem to lose control over a variable you prefer to be held
>constant.
>

I think that's what Apple wanted to do. What I want to see doesen't matter....
:)
They wanted to show that their CPU ist competitive. The "fastest computer on the
planet" was maybe a bit to much. ;)

It all depends what you want. I try to avoid binaries for Intel, that's why I
use Unix/Linux and gcc3.3. GCC runs on many systems, but it's not so
"specialized" like Intels compilers. IMHO Apple did a good joice supporting gcc
and not ceating their own compiler. Developers will appreciate this  because it
make it easy for them to port software.

regards
Andreas



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