Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 15:40:00 08/29/03
Go up one level in this thread
On August 29, 2003 at 16:05:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >For integer performance story is different, but that thread was about FP >performance, right? :-) Well, the thread was really about x87 performance. That's not quite completely different than your statement, because of the severe constraints x87 places on FP performance. And we even get to blame Intel for that too, since they invented it. :) If not for that, maybe Intel/AMD would be making chips using PPC, MIPS, or even better, Alpha ISA. Then Intel wouldn't have needed to spend 10 years and billions of dollars creating the Itanium, killing Alpha and PA-RISC in the process (by virtue of partnering with HP on Itanium design), and we'd probably have much faster (in performance, not clock speed) CPUs on the desktop now using an ISA that doesn't suck. Oh well.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.