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To: Elmer who wrote (106079)	7/23/2000 11:37:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, <Also did you see that Dell scores are quite improved compared to Intel's using the older 4.5 version of the compilers. Any idea why they are so high?> Possibly because Dell's scores were submitted three months after Intel's. Dell might have had more time to tweak and optimize their settings (both hardware and software) before submitting their results to SPEC. All of this benchmark stuff brings up two interesting questions. First, we saw how a simple update to the compiler brought about an 11% improvement in the score. Could it be that some (if not all) of the compiler optimizations are only geared toward SPEC2000 and not to other potential applications? (Forgive me for sounding like an AMDroid here, but even I can't look past this possibility.) And second, this benchmark was run on a five-year-old P6 core implementing a God-knows-how-old x86 architecture. I wonder what sort of SPEC2000 results we'll see on Itanium, given that IA-64 is more dependent on the compiler than other architectures. Tenchusatsu