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To: Elmer who wrote (118678)	11/20/2000 10:28:51 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, What do you think of the P4 benchmarks Tom and Anand have posted?

To: Elmer who wrote (118678)	11/20/2000 10:35:21 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, I haven't seen you claim the P4 is the champion at "blasting mutant aliens" yet... This is quite a title you know. <G> Jim

To: Elmer who wrote (118678)	11/20/2000 11:38:38 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

Elmer, the second highest floating point SPEC scores ever measured meant the P4 did well? When I said "Speaking strictly of FP performance" I meant FP performance, excluding SSE(2). SSE works differently than traditional FP. I think that's what Pete meant when he said that P4 had weak FP score. Intel seems to view FP as just a compatibility issue, the problem is the installed base of computers capable of SSE is small, installed base of SSE2 is zero. As a consequence, the support for SSE is very limited. SPEC score has no relation to what's going on in the real world. Joe