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To: EricRR who wrote (116214)	6/18/2000 3:09:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572340

RatBrain - Re: "Also I heard a nasty rumor that most web servers out there use scripting languages and Java to do their logic. I wonder how a >30 (non trace) clock cycle branch miss-predict penalty would effect such server performance? Intel does make a good c++ compiler, do they plan to also make a Foster JVM? " Foster will be 100% compatible with existing x86 software - so any existing x86 scripts - PERL, etc., - & JVM should run on it quite nicely - and at impressive speeds ! All branch mis-predicts for ALL PROCESSORS suffer penalties - but at 1.4 GHz, those 30 cycles go by very quickly - about 21 nanoSeconds ! Will there be a new JVM designed around the new Willamette SSE2 instructions? I wouldn't have a clue right now. What is important is that Willamette is heading for production in about 3 or 4 months and Foster will show up in early 2001. Paul