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To: Elmer who wrote (86132)	7/26/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: kapkan4u	Respond to of 186894

<but in regards to FPU, some of the Coppermine improvement was the result of "complier technology". Now I don't know exactly what was meant by that but it could involve the use of SSE instructions for FPU code. I would argue that performance improvements due to Intel compiler's specFP tweaks are nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Kap.

To: Elmer who wrote (86132)	7/26/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 186894

Elmer, Incidentally, if Intel produces the long rumored "Cascades" followon to Xeon, that being a Coppermine with anywhere from 512K to 2 Meg of L2, it would make sense that the performance would exceed the K7 in it's existing form. Dream on.... Scumbria