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To: Scumbria who wrote (119690)	11/29/2000 9:17:52 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I like the "As long as current applications don't get replaced by new ones" - like that never happens. Future looks bleak for AMD if anyone dares recompile software or attempts to sell us new stuff for the new P4. www4.tomshardware.com My intentions to publish those new results with Intel-optimized executables were merely to show how much the performance of Pentium 4 *can* be improved once optimized code is being used. I tried to remind you of the fact that AMD had not supplied me with Athlon-optimized executables so far, which is why *the latest FlasK-benchmark results are in no way useful to compare the performance of Pentium 4 and Athlon right now. Once I have received those executables, it is fair to compare Athlon with Pentium 4 by using optimized software for each of the two. I have tested the Athlon-optimized code from Alexander Goodrich last night (November 28, 2000, 12:35 AM) and so far Athlon is not able to surpass Pentium 4 with Athlon-optimized x87 FPU code and the 3DNow!-optimized code is way slower than the Pentium 4 double-precision SSE2-optimized one. This is not the last word yet, because Alexander is still working hard on further optimizations. However, even if Athlon should end up losing this contest it doesn't mean that Pentium 4 is the better processor. As I already said, the FlasK-issue was less of a comparison between Athlon and Pentium 4. It was more of an example to show what is actually possible. The actual software world out there looks a lot different. Sudden optimizations for certain processors simply don't happen in the real world. As long as current applications don't get replaced by new ones, Athlon is still ahead of Pentium 4 in the majority of situations.* I have also asked AMD itself to work on an Athlon-optimized FlasK. Once we received those executables from AMD we will supply you with valid and final Athlon-results.