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To: Elmer who wrote (78731)	11/5/1999 11:38:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578161

Elmer - <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?> You read my mind. My take on all the 3rd party side by side comparisons in aggregate to date has the K7 and Coppermine in a dead heat. SO back to the original question: Is K7 7th generation? Jury is still out, IMHO, but I strongly lean towards no. How many AMD die hards believe K7 will be able to compete against Willamette? PB