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To: Rob Young who wrote (87012)	8/23/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (3) of 186894

Tench, We have a little more data .. becoming the rage over in Usenet land: techweb.com "Reports indicating that HP is pushing the McKinley over the Merced are "complete hooey," Kroeker said. However, in recent HP tests, the net integer performance of a simulation of the first Merced chip was 90 percent of HP's current 440-MHz PA-RISC 8500, and 85 percent of the 8500's ability to calculate floating-point operations, according to Kroeker. The tests were conducted to eliminate factors such as bus speed, using software that would isolate the performance of the CPU. While the Merced's clock speed is faster than 440 MHz, it has not been publicly disclosed, he said. " Seems HP let the cat out of the bag on performance. Doing the math this puts Merced at 30.6 integer and 43.7 fp. Given Merced will translate HP PA-RISC binaries to IA-64 calls on the fly .. and state of the art binary translation yields 70% native performance you can see that PA-RISC will do about 21 SpecInt and 31 or so floating point. By late next year, HP with the 8600 will be more than twice as fast than Merced running PA-RISC binaries and quite a bit faster running recompiled HP/UX code on Merced. No wonder the PA-RISC side of the house isn't interested in Merced... wait until McKinley. Twice as fast as Merced! 80 SpecFp95 in 2001 for McKinley will catch Intel up to where Alpha will be in October 1999. Rob

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