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To: Steve Porter who wrote (121079)	7/27/2000 2:53:48 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572970

Steve, In other words, Merced will face some stiff competition as a workstation product. Scumbria

To: Steve Porter who wrote (121079)	7/27/2000 3:01:19 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572970

Steven, why do you expect that the Sledgehammer will have superior clock for clock floating-point performance than the 21364? I mean, I'm open towards changing my mindset, but I had the opinion that x86-64 still carries some baggage from the old days that can lag it a bit. For instance, there's still the much deeper pipeline on the K8 -- if it is anything like that on the K7, then wouldn't there be a much steeper branch miss penalty than on the (7-stage?) 21364?