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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (123367)	12/19/2000 10:47:11 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Re: Intel's compiler improves performance on more than just SPEC... Tenchusatsu, It's a compiler designed for creating builds that run synthetic benchmarks quickly - nothing else. With the exception of a handfull of games and some applications that primarily stream data to and from memory, there are almost no applications for which P4 is more than mediocre. On 98% of the software that will be in use over the next 3 years, P4 is rarely as good as a P3 or Athlon clocked 25% slower than the P4. P4 is an interesting novelty, but not particularly useful or desirable. I'm sure Intel will fix it when they are able to put back in the clearly necessary parts of the P4 that were removed so that it would be small enough to manufacture. P4 excels on a hand tuned version of the FLASK benchmark, and a secret build of SPEC hand tuned by Intel over the last 6 months. Athlon excels on the hundreds of millions of lines of code in constant use all over the world - things like all versions of Windows, and all Visual C++ compiled applications and all versions of Office and WordPerfect, etc. Somebody's in denial here, all right, but I think it's you. People don't buy a chip, then try to write or run out and find a program that will run well on it, they have executables like Windows and Linux and Office and accounting packages and mathematical packages and they buy the chip to run those applications. Dan

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