Re: P4 vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?

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From: Rowland McDonnell
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:31

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Giuseppe Bilotta <oblomov@freemail.it> wrote:

> Robert Myers wrote:
> > 
> > A processor that requires special code to get decent
> > performance is not especially attractive, and if the P4 weren't an Intel
> > product, no one would be using it.
> 
> Well, Intel CPUs have always suffered from bad design problems which 
> require hoop-jumping, contorsionism and loop unrolling to get decent 
> performance.

Back in the days of the 4040, this wasn't considered a problem.

Rowland.

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Subject: Re: P4  vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?
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