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Date:      Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:35:00 -0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c 
Message-ID:  <29911.1067153692@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:41:45 MST." <20031026064145.18F0E2A8D5@canning.wemm.org> 

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In message <20031026064145.18F0E2A8D5@canning.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:
>
>For example.. you dont need a barrel shifter for graphics for values other
>than the standard vga plane depths (1,2,4,8,15,16,24) so out that goes.

Without disclosing any numbers unduly I can say that the scientific
community will find Opteron a much better deal than Intel if they
need to add floating point numbers of different magnitudes.

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