Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 03:28:34 07/01/03
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On June 30, 2003 at 21:25:09, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >Chicken and egg. 64 bit is obviously good (that's why they bothered) but the >chip has to be available for a while for people to take advantage of 64 bit. >Until then, its 32 bit performance is what's interesting to users (and what's >accurately measurable). > >-Tom I'm not saying there isn't a technical problem in testing it for 64 bit. What I'm saying is, that testing it for somethink else will just be a different test, and that this test isn't really relevant at all. I remember that Anandtech did a huge 4 section review on the Opteron. What did they do? They measured benchmarks in various games and other silly things like that. I went to their forum to ask them to do some 64 bit tests, but I didn't have to write anything because there were already numerous people asking just that. People are not really interested in how this thing does on old apps, in 1 year the software cycle has replaced everything with native 64 bit code anyway, what is interesting is the leap from 32 to 64 bit, this is what the Opteron is all about. You can just about toss those crappy 32 bit compilers in the bin now, you won't be needing them much longer :) -S.
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