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Article #862Re: P4 vs Athlon for Linux latexing, is gcc-2.95 responsible?
From: Giuseppe Bilotta
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:44
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:44
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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. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta Axiom I of the Giuseppe Bilotta theory of IT: Anything is better than MS
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