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To: fyodor_ who wrote (22715)	12/17/2000 7:26:49 PM
From: minnow68	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Fyo, You wrote "You might be able to get a lot of that back, possibly even enough to make it worth it, if you optimize your code for SSE(2)." I have over 100,000 lines of code. No hand optimizations are ever going to happen. I've actually wasted money on the Intel compiler. Compared to MSC V6.0, the code generated by the Intel compiler was much larger, much slower, and _gave the wrong answers_. I used to believe in SPEC, but owning a copy of the Intel compiler changed my tune on that... I'll use SSE2 (SSE is useless to me because everything I do is double precision) when gcc or Visual C++ support it. Until then, I'll be using nothing but Athlons. Well, if 4Ghz P4's show up next year, I'll look at them. Mike