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To: dougSF30 who wrote (198114)	5/21/2006 12:30:15 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Doug: Those were P4 optimized binaries that do not maximize A64 results. It probably has a lot of packed SSE2 operations. If they were x87 or scalar SSE2, A64 beats Conroe. There are far more binaries using x87 than SSE2. So you say that Conroe will run poorly on any legacy code. Look at it from the other side. Like when Sciencemark is run with AMD64 binaries optimized for K8 from Pathscale, Conroe loses to A64 X2. When the working set goes above 4MB, Conroe loses again. The memory benches show that. No it looks like Conroe isn't going to have much of a lead, if any. The harder you work it, the slower Conroe gets. Pete