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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (119212)	11/26/2000 12:11:41 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Tench - RE: "Hopefully it also sheds some light on the performance situation with Pentium 4, both legacy and future." Ok, so it's basically understood that the Athlon is better at running the majority of today's programs while the P4 has the "potential" to be the superior processor in the future once programs are optimized for its core/SSE2. The question I have is how confident are people that software will be recompiled or rewritten for the P4 now rather than later. SSE came out 20 months ago and, as far as I can tell, is not prevalent in the majority of software sold today. Will software developers make a more pronounced effort to optimize for the P4 ASAP since it, comparatively, blows in the majority of today's software and has lots of untapped "potential"? With Intel stating the P4 won't out-ship the PIII until late 2001 or early 2002 (which just happens to be the same time period AMD plans to support SSE2), what incentive do today's developers have to make a transition to P4 optimized software ASAP rather than when the P4 becomes Intel's undisputed volume leader?

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