On Sunday 07 August 2005 16:17, you wrote: > * The Itanium (1.4Ghz, Medison core?) has lousy Integer performance and > memory performance. Don't touch it. (Or you'll burn... literally...) >
Are you talking about the original Itanium or about Itanium 2? Itanium 1 was very crappy: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il%40cs.huji.ac.il/msg20048.html However, Itanium 2 is rumoured to be very nice. Here is some lines from a conversation in OFTC's #offtopic channel a while ago: <<<<<<<<<<<<< <velco> rindolf: virtually everything beated the crap out of itanium, itanium2 is different though. <rindolf> _deep: so while Itanium can be considered cutting edge, it's still quite crappy. <rindolf> velco: is it better? I did not hear about it much. <rindolf> Yet. <rindolf> velco: it is possible that they simply used brain-dead algorithm in the Itanium 1 design, and managed to refactor them for Itanium2. <velco> rindolf: prolly only new alpahas (ev7?) can compete with it. dunno for power4. all the rest bite the dust. <ijuz> IA64 has some great features, x86-64 is in a lot of regards cheap shitt <rindolf> velco: are you talking at chips with the same clock-rate? <velco> nope. <rindolf> velco: I mean an alpha with 600 MHz and Itanium 2 with 600 MHz? <velco> well, dunno for sure, but I think curent alphas ans itenium2 are clocked virtually at the same rate. >>>>>>>>>>>>> (I'm "rindolf"). Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of paragraphs. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
