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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (70981)2/8/2002 4:09:14 AM
From: Neil BoothRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Second, the guy did NOT get 50% higher performance by going to AMD.

Put it like this; the latest Athlon's outrun a PIII 1GHZ by more than 50%. It should be obvious that is what I was referring to, not to his recompile. He said his P4 1.7GHZ was 20% slower than a P3 1GHZ. See?

My whole point is that, for 99% of P4 users, its performance sucks, and they can't and don't want to do a recompile with Intel's compiler. Most of their binaries come with the distro, and are usually compiled as an i586, but sometimes (e.g. Debian) only compiled for an 386! Imagine how much P4 sucks there! GCC defines the performance of the CPU that people buy.

Recompiled x86-64 apps can be done with the system-standard compiler on free platforms, GCC, so you don't have a point there either.

Neil.
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