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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.152059.4163@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 15:20:59 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.032421.22615@bluemoon.rn.com> <Bt1rp8.EKv@gator.rn.com> <PCG.92Aug20160444@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>
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- In article <PCG.92Aug20160444@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
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- | But, to recognize the weaknesses and strengths of different lines, all
- | Intel floating point implementations, including the 486 one, are losers,
- | even with compilers tuned to its architecture. After all it was Intel
- | who started speaking about 'integer' SPECmarks, because the x87
- | 'floating' SPECmarks were so poor that they dragged down the overall
- | SPECmark index.
- |
- | It's just a small matter of cycle counts. Indeed one of the (rumoured)
- | major advances in the 586 is that it will have a competitive floating
- | point implementation.
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- Yes, assuming Cyrix can deliver where Intel could not, the 586 will be
- a major step forward in performance.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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