Aces' Hardware comparison of FPU performance (Athlon vs P4)

[James Cownie]

Probably worth a look, if you're in the market for new nodes for FPU
intensive work (the Intel compiler is available in beta on Linux,
after all) :-

http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=40000189

Fundamental conclusion is that the P4 flies when the compiler manages
to use SSE2 vectorisation (and your code isn't bandwidth limited ;-)
For "real" codes like SPECFP SSE2 doesn't win much.

-- Jim 

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