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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (95952)	2/29/2000 8:44:00 PM
From: crazyoldman	Respond to of 1571778

Hello Tenchusatsu, Re: Why doesn't AMD write compilers then? It takes a lot of time (years) to write a good compiler. It has occurred to me that AMD should approach Imprise (Borland) and have them add optimization for the Athlon. For all I know they are doing that now. With Microsoft Xbox rumors, perhaps Microsoft is writing an Athlon optimized compiler. Many possibilities exist. Kindest regards, CrazyMan

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (95952)	2/29/2000 8:52:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571778

Tench, It would be nice to see an AMD compiler, but I guess the simple answer is that AMD's resources are limited and there are more important benchmarks than getting SPEC95fp_base to run fast. End users are going to be more concerned about the "real world" application benchmarks and I don't think either Intel's or AMD's compilers figure in those at all.