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To: SilentZ who wrote (65424)	12/11/2001 10:23:20 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"but isn't the irony here that Athlon will execute this type of software much more quickly than P4 due to AI's inherent lack of predictability?" Maybe. But the P4 might also have an advantage due to the it's high bandwidth to memory. Vision applications need to move a lot of data around, and that plays to the P4s strengths. As you note, the Athlon (especially an XP) would likely do well because of the non-determinstic nature of typical AI code.

To: SilentZ who wrote (65424)	12/12/2001 3:02:55 AM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the irony here that Athlon will execute this type of software much more quickly than P4 due to AI's inherent lack of predictability?" This is a baseless generalization, vis-a-vis a computer vision application. AI programs run the gamut from data-mining of huge data sets (finding minerals, extracting financial trends, etc.) to robotic applications with a strong emphasis on distributed processing to neural nets with extremely localized computation to computer vision (based on image processing, hence matrix computations). Extrapolating to relative performance of Athlon over P4 is delusional. Get a grip. --Tim May