Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:01:15 -0800 | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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>>>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:13:00 -0800, "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> said:
Linus> Look at them the right way and you realize that a lot of the Linus> grottyness is exactly _why_ the x86 works so well (yeah, and Linus> the fact that they are everywhere ;).
>> But does x86 reall work so well? Itanium 2 on 0.13um performs a >> lot better than P4 on 0.13um. As far as I can guess, the only >> reason P4 comes out on 0.13um (and 0.09um) before anything else >> is due to the latter part you mention: it's where the volume is >> today.
Martin> Care to share those impressive benchmark numbers (for Martin> macro-benchmarks)? Would be interesting to see the Martin> difference, and where it wins.
You can do it two ways: you can look at the numbers Intel is publicly projected for Madison, or you can compare McKinley with 0.18um Pentium 4.
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