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To: Joe NYC who wrote (118670)11/20/2000 10:27:43 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 186894
 
Re: "Speaking strictly of FP performance, P4 is indeed a poor performer"

You're right Joe. How could I have been so stupid as to think the second highest floating point SPEC scores ever measured meant the P4 did well? After all, it was only 79% faster than an Athlon. What was I thinking???

EP



To: Joe NYC who wrote (118670)11/21/2000 2:44:03 AM
From: The Duke of URLĀ©  Respond to of 186894
 
<Intel put all their eggs>

You could look at it another way. It is important that the P4 be backward compatible with the older apps. :))