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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (56098)	9/23/2001 1:45:49 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Constantine, Re: <I run our real-time web reporting engine bench on a variety of machines and it seems the P4 is much slower than the Athlon ...> It's clear you're not a IS professional. Benchmarks are created so you don't have to run real software. If your shop is still running real software it is hopelessly behind the times. Get current! Run benchmarks. As your skill set develops you'll find some software that can be compiled with the INTC compiler. Run those applications. For the applications that the INTC compiler chokes on -- just delete the parts that fail! Pretty soon you'll have a shop full of INTC professionals! Good luck on your new program! tgptndr

To: Charles Gryba who wrote (56098)	9/23/2001 1:59:55 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Constantine, Re: "I run our real-time web reporting engine bench on a variety of machines and it seems the P4 is much slower than the Athlon ( 1.5Ghz P4 was 66% slower than the 1Ghz Athlon, 25% slower than the 1Ghz P3 ). I hope hyperthreading can do something about it." I hope so, too. But all signs point to, "yes, it would." A 30% increase on a floating point app like Maya is impressive, since the Pentium 4 doesn't have that many FPU resources to begin with. Integer apps like web hosting should get an even larger boost, given the huge amount of integer and memory resources in the Pentium 4. wanna_bmw