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To: Joe NYC who wrote (150807)	12/3/2001 3:38:14 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) of 186894

Joe, Re: "What is this program supposed to test?" It's a routine that mucks around with locality such that every instruction requires a read from memory, rather than the L1 instruction cache, or in the case of the Pentium 4, the trace cache. Intentionally architecting the code to do this is supposed to imply how weak the Pentium 4 front end is when the trace cache has nearly a 100% miss rate. The AMDroids are eating up this concept with a spoon - they love the fact that Pentium 4 has a weakness they can exploit. They'll put the benchmarks up on big banners and wave them around both forums and claim how poor the performance of the Pentium 4 really is - and how Intel should be condemned for calling their chip 2GHz. Personally, I don't see the usefulness in an application that is so far removed from real life that it had to be pain-stakingly engineered to do what it was designed to do. wbmw

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