On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:19:38 +0000, Ted MacNEIL wrote:

>>A z9 UP is closer to 600 MIPS.
>
>The latest claim is 585. But, that doesn't matter, since IBM has only
benchmarketted to 24 CP's.

Well, ok, 585 MIPS for a uniprocessor.  That's still considerably more than
the 350 PSI claims they can do with emulation on an Itanium, and they don't
say how many processors they use to achieve that.  I was disputing the
statement that an Itanium can emulate instructions faster than z silicon.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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