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Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 06:41, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Jeff Roberson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > 
> > > Wow, pentium4 sucks.  Yes, I agree then, we should revert the change.
> > I'll do it.
> > > 
> > > Intel looks more disappointing every day.
> > 
> > Well, think of their optimization goals... The pentium4 was designed for
> > two things..  1) to increase MHz, since thats all dumbass customers and
> > sales droids understand, and 2) to increase game framerate benchmarks.
> > Anything that didn't contribute to that goal and consumed transistors
> > started losing.
> 
> The trick is to find some way to make intel interested in your problems
> (e.g. change a large site from using intel processors to amd). When the
> marketing people start to care about an application, the technical
> people start to collect instruction traces to use for optimising the
> next generation.

Funny you should mention that..........

Cheers,
-Peter
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