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Subject: Re: P4 Vs Athlon 64 bits

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:55:45 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 11:42:47, Jon Dart wrote:

>> Also note that this is a 32 bit version of crafty on the xeon
>> (the xeon is a 32 bit architecture)
>
>There are 64-bit Xeons now - have you done any comparisons
>between Xeon 64 bit chips vs. AMD?
>
>--Jon


The first one I tested was horrible.  32 bit external, 64 bit internal.  Was a
pure dog.  I've not tested anything in the past 60 days however, so I can't say
whether they have dumped that kludge and done it right or not...

I believe the first version took a 64 bit operation, and turned it into
micro-ops that split it across the 32 bit pipes.  64 bit applications would die
as you now operate on twice as much data, but with 1/2 the instruction-level
parallelism. No good...

all it was good for was to provide a good test bed for a real 64 bit
architecture...



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