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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:37:15 +0200
From:      "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium
Message-ID:  <00d701c0cedc$1ee190c0$6405a8c0@neland.dk>
References:  <200104171836.LAA06378@akira.lanfear.com> <000001c0c777$f9529b30$215778d8@cx443070b> <20010426175906.B88522@peorth.iteration.net> <3AE8D4DC.E0E35042@bellatlantic.net>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergey Babkin" <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Cc: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>; <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

> Anothing interesting point is that the optimisation for IA-64
> seems to be highly processor-specific: the code optimized for
> Itanium won't be optimal for McKinley and vice versa.  I've heard
> an estimation of about 1.5 times speed increase due to the
> model-specific optimisation.
> 
Perhaps commercial software will need to come in (encrypted) source and be compiled to the the current processor...

Leif


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