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

To: Dan3 who wrote (88931)	1/22/2000 11:17:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571808

Re: "AMD is running the same code, with the same optimizations, on both processors." AMD makes no mention on what optimizations are used, so there is no way to verify their claims regarding SPEC. On the SPEC site, Compaq, Dell and Fujitsu all list the optimizations they used when running the benchmarks. I agree with you in that a more complete comparison can only be made when both have access or their own optimized code, which may not be the same for both processors. Intel has a compiler they use and may I point out that there is no law or court order preventing AMD from using their own compiler. I don't see it a requirement that Intel provide poor helpless AMD with a means of optimizing their own code. Let them develop their own compiler. EP