🚀 go-pugleaf

Coltof EW wrote:
> 
> PrEzTo (au138@chebucto.ns.ca) wrote:
> : =3D>> Well, I don't know about the K6, but I know the FPU of my AMD 5x86 =
> : 133
> : =3D>> is only the equivalent of an Intel P75. Which is why I say: Go =
> : Intel!
> : =3D>> John
> 
> : =3D>Or as I say go bankrupt!!!
> : =3D>To go intel costs about 20% extra for the same clock speed and as
> : =3D>someone who doesn't play quake I don't give a toss what the FPU speed
> : =3D>is.
> 
> : QUAKE is not the only thing the FPU is used for!!!  It's also used for
> : intensive mathematical calculations which is why Intel chips have been
> : popular in the past as they are now.  If Quake was the only reason for
> : a faster FPU then Intel would die!  Not only that, the Quake team
> : could of used integer calculations and made the code a lot faster.
> : What am I to say, programmers are getting lazier with all this new
> : technology ;-).
> 
> Well, if floating point is REAL important, like Raytracing, there's always
> the alpha AXP, those things are FAST. As soon as I have a job i'm going
> to save my money to buy one. I do a lot of numerical math and simulations,
> I think I'm gonna like it.
> BTW I don't like Quake, so I dont'care about that.
> 
> ELroy
Sorry to break the bad news to you, but Intel just bought the Alpha
production business from DEC, so it looks like they are gonna kill it. 
And WRT the K6, on certain instructions its FPU is faster than a
Pentium, and on others it's slightly slower.  Differences are
negligable, Except for programs optimized specifically for the Pentium
FPU.  Quake is the only one shipping today that anyone knows of, and
from the amount of problems Id is having maintaining multiple versions
to run on Intel vs Non-Intel chips, probably the last, too.
Dave
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