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To: Elmer who wrote (56750)	9/30/2001 2:42:36 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Elmer: What about integer? You know the answer as well as I ;-). But, since you are fishing for it: Integer performance was virtually unchanged (except in cases where the larger L1 cache or the backside L2 cache was important - which was not an insignificant portion of the apps and benchmarks of the time - where the Athlon was naturally significantly faster). -fyo

To: Elmer who wrote (56750)	10/2/2001 3:19:19 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Elmer, What about integer? The gains are much harder here, and not much has changed from the original Pentium (K5, Pii, K6, Piii, K7). The gains came from tinkering with L1, L2 and MHz increases. P4 broke the trend in producing significant drop, only partially offset by MHz jump. This is presently the weakest area of P4, but gains can be made by wild 2 wild cards: JT and tinkering with trace cache / decoders. These 2 areas can produce most gains, or nothing. Performance from increase of FSB is fairly predictable as is performance from L2 increase (although the returns are diminishing). Joe