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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: survivin who wrote (78716)	11/5/1999 10:37:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578071

Re: "Also, includes a quote elmer may not like, "The recent SpecFp numbers, published by Intel, that both SpecInt and SpecFp can be compiled with compilers which are not used right now in the real world.[sic] I sincerely doubt that such well ISSE Streaming optimized compilers will be used by the rest of the world. On top of that, Intel's compiler is a two-pass compiler, as opposed to most compilers on the market right now; which are 1-pass C compilers." People want to rationalize away those benchmarks by claiming the lead over Athlon was due to compiler tricks. How then do you explain the CuMine victories in virtually every major benchmark when those other benchmarks do not use Intel's compiler? Furthermore I think the SSE instructions will definitely make their way into commercial code, in time, and just why should I care how many passes a compiler takes? EP