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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (59289)5/22/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: Charles R  Read Replies (2) of 1572942
 
Scumbria,

"The multi-threading can be largely managed by the
compiler, and therefore does not require the high overhead of a multithreaded OS."

Wouldn't this overhead be increasingly irrelevant as processor ASPs drop and performance increases *assuming* a scalable OS?

"I don't see the verification of McKinley as being a big problem, in fact it will
probably be easier than any of their x86 CPUs (including Merced.)"

I should clarify/correct myself - what I meant was the challenge of tuning the compiler to a new CPU. i.e., not the function of the CPU itself but getting software to work on it. Would that change your response?

Chuck
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