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To: rudedog who wrote (48922)	5/10/2002 5:29:56 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

"Intel 32 bit machines ... require a task switch just as if the data was not in RAM. The same test on a Xeon-based box showed only a 30% gain going from 4GB to 16 GB." Sorry, I do not buy your point. A task switch does not cost nearly as much as fetching from disk. If your system runs short on physical memory and pages to disk, any speedup is possible, I agree. But if both systems are under the same conditions, something must be wrong with one of them. How about absolute numbers to compare? I wonder, if you are right, how it is possible that people on every street corner are bragging how high the iA-32 flies on TPC-whatever benchmarks, both price/performance wise, and absolute? - Ali P.S. The smoking part was a matter of speech, take care;-).