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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kapkan4u who wrote (67763)8/5/1999 9:10:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1577318
 
Re: "First, Elmer posted that CuMine would be competitive with Athlon on specFP, within few % points (in his words) due to compiler use of SSE. The problem with Elmer's statement is that only one specFP95 benchmark is using single-precision FP. I hope this doesn't get Elmer in trouble. "

What I said was that I had heard a person, who was very much in a position to know, make the statement that the Coppermine would be a "jump ball" with Athlon in Integer performance and within a few percent in FP, IN PART due to compiler technology. It was pure speculation on my part that this compiler technology involved SSE instructions, as the person speaking did not go into specific detail. The person is high up in that organization and his name would be recognized by some here on this thread. My impression is, the Athlon's lead in performance, though real at this point, will disappear before the years end. I could be wrong. Time will tell.

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