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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (148428)	11/16/2001 1:09:24 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Constantine, Re: "Every company in the US has custom applications that runs their business and they are used to a level of performance." The only sad and frustrating thing is how you continually compare your company's unique situation to every other company in the U.S. This may be news for you, but hundreds of very popular applications are already being rewritten to take advantage of newer architectures. Many of these enhancements simply make the code cleaner and more efficient; therefore, it would run faster on any newer micro-architecture, Athlon included. The fact is that there are certain code paths are are problematic for any out-of-order machine, but only more so for Netburst. Cleaning up these problematic code paths improves performance dramatically, and these techniques are making their way into newer mainstream compilers, like Microsoft C++. Would your company object to recompiling your code for perhaps significantly better performance? I can see Intel improving the performance of the Pentium 4 more with certain code, but big micro-architectural changes take time. I am hoping that Northwood alleviates some of the problems with certain legacy applications, but it may take even more revisions in the future. Therefore, it is up to the software to fix the problems that are inherent in the code. If your applications are programmed in C++, I can't see why it would be costly to recompile it with a newer compiler. Maybe you can explain more about your situation, and why you think it will take major expenses to update your applications. wbmw