On 14 Oct 2001, at 19:57, George Woltman wrote: > The P4 has two advantages. One is memory bandwidth. The other > is SSE2.
If memory bandwidth was a primary reason then the P4 would run the standard "P6" (Pentium Pro) code efficiently. If you remember the postings when the P4 was originally released, this was definitely not the case. > > When AMD finally implements SSE2 it should be a screamer. The lower > latencies could be a big plus. Assuming, of course, that the complications involved in implementing SSE2 don't clobber the performance (in terms of increased latency). Which is what seemed to happen with the P4. Regards Brian Beesley _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
