Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

From: Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 15:13:00 EST


> 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.

Care to share those impressive benchmark numbers (for macro-benchmarks)?
Would be interesting to see the difference, and where it wins.

Thanks,

M

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