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To: EricRR who wrote (5936)8/21/2000 7:13:24 PM
From: ScumbriaRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
Ratbert,

According t Sharkey, Willy's branch prediction is 30% better than Coppermine's.

I don't think Sharkey knows what he is talking about, as evidenced by this statement from the article:

the Pentium III data cache stores x86 instructions

Itanic sounds cool. A 150 watt RSA encryption engine.

Scumbria



To: EricRR who wrote (5936)8/21/2000 9:00:20 PM
From: Gopher BrokeRespond to of 275872
 
intel says spec performance not important for itanium

Hehehe. You have to hand it to Intel. Never mind rewriting the benchmarks, just dismiss them as not important.