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To: grok who wrote (61609)	6/13/1999 1:42:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) of 1584046

KZ, <are the binaries produced by Intel's compiler available for AMD to use on K7?> If you would be patient to look down the bottom of your link spec.org you would find the following text: "The Intel Compiler 4.0 for Windows NT is shipped with VTune 4.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 is also installed for libraries" This means: if you buy the open-market product "VTune" (from Intel), you are set to make binaries exactly as used by Intel (since compiler optimization flags are published as well by SPEC requirements). Anyone can go and buy the "VTune" product, therefore the "binaries" can be freely reproduced for fair benchnarking. However, since there is no optimization flags yet for K7 in that Intel FORTTRAN compiler :), the only fair way for today would be to compare so-called "base" numbers, where no special treatment/optimization for sub-benchmarks is done, only few common flags for all ten FP executables.

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