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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (59174)	5/21/1999 6:38:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1594908

Ten, How do you know? The only thing which supports this theory is the fact that Dirk Meyer is a former Digital Alpha architect. The K7 uses a lot of data flow architecture techniques (large caches, data forwarding, register renaming, numerous out of order execution units, large write buffers, etc.) which are well known to produce good SPEC scores. The K7 microarchitecture is very similar to the 21264, within the limitations of x86 of course. By the way, how important and/or relevant are SPEC scores in the real world? And no, I'm not asking this question because I want to spread anti-K7 FUD; I'm genuinely curious. SPEC scores are very important for scientific/academic computing. I don't know how much weight they carry in the business community. Scumbria