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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (70975)	2/8/2002 4:03:44 AM
From: Neil Booth	Read Replies (1) of 275872

First, the guy was using dual 1.7GHz Xeons Obviously you didn't pay attention - he said they were 20% slower. So you do the maths: 1.7/.8 = 2.125GHZ so I was being kind to the P4. It really is a dud, needing a 112% speed increase over a P3. The effects he saw are repeated with a lot of software, apart form the benchmarks that Intel has decreed are the ones to use. Sure Intel has a nice compiler, but that doesn't matter for 99% of users. If you have an AMD processor, you already have a nice compiler without forking out $500 per user to INTC. Neil.

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