On Tuesday 07 May 2002 02:14, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations:
> I guess the real difference will come with the hammer-core processors > which are x86 compatible unlike IA-64, but have significant enhancements > beyond the 64-bit wideness. There a compile for a 16-year-old processor > will certainly not compete with one for the actual processor itself. > For the Pentium and 686-style procesors, the difference is slight, and > sometimes the 686 compile runs slower. Early results compiling > exclusively for Athlon show some gains over the pentium compile, but not > enough to justify the expense of separate maintenance. The Opteron will > likely be a much different story. i know i am hoping the opteron will meet the hype. might actually upgrade the creaking old 400. has AMD released them for testing to anyone? i have no idea how that works/what the time table is, but i have wondered. anyone know? -- "Give me ambiguity or give me something else." shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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