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To: Neil Booth who wrote (70971)	2/7/2002 7:02:32 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Neil, Re: "Of course he is. As far as he's concerned, for his software, the P4 2GHz is no better than the PIII 1GHz. The same is true for all Linux / FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD users, which is something that I would be concerned about if I were Intel." You have a couple problems with this. First, the guy was using dual 1.7GHz Xeons, and second, he was only testing trivial benchmark applications - "ubench" and "unixbenchmark". The most important thing, though, is that this gentleman had no problem getting in contact with the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux 5.0, which changed his system from underperforming by 20% - to overperforming by 30%! That's a significant change - and just the result of recompiling. If I were Intel, the only thing I'd be concerned about is getting the word out on how great their compiler is. Re: "The situations even more underwater when it comes to Itanic." Only if people are buying Itanium systems to run "ubench" and "unixbenchmark". LOL. wbmw

To: Neil Booth who wrote (70971)	2/7/2002 7:32:27 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Neil, why don't you read your own link? First of all, the guy is using a version of the gcc compiler that is older than the Pentium 4 itself. All three responses to the guy mentioned this. Second, the guy did NOT get 50% higher performance by going to AMD. Instead, he got 50% higher performance by switching compilers. Nowhere did he ever mention AMD. Third, only one benchmark out there is artificially skewed for Pentium 4 (SYSMark 2001), and even that problem was addressed months ago. And fourth, when AMD starts touting the performance of recompiled x86-64 apps, you'll start calling compiler optimizations a sacrement. Tenchusatsu