aha... ok that makes sense.
Thanks for the clarification, now that I read your post and reread his I agree with both of you.

Marc M.

Arcadian (a@a.com) on 2/3/03 wrote:
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>Marc,
>
>It sounds like Bill is disagreeing on Pete's comments regarding SPECfp, but he
>agrees that Opteron's SPECint performance will outrun the other 64-bit CPUs. I
>suppose he'll have to wait and see, but based on the available information, it appears
>that Operton has the advantage of a finely tuned compiler that is able to produce
>excellent SPECint scores. I've seen other compilers (GNU, Portland Group, etc)
>score up to 25% lower than the Intel compiler in SPEC, which enforces Paul DeMone's
>theory that AMD will have a hard time outscoring their 32-bit score with 64-bit
>compilers that are not produced from Intel.
>
>(Not speaking for Intel)
>
>Marc M. (marcmfs@hotmail.com) on 2/3/03 wrote:
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>>um... bill you just shot down every argument he had for opteron being faster than
>>I2. so how is opteron supposed to run far ahead of all of them? I am curiouse
>>about what you mean by this. Do you mean that it will outsell? or is somehow outperform?
>>and why. I would love it to be the case but there is no indication other than
>>unproven back alley comments that opteron will in fact outperform by a large margin any of the other 64 bit MPU's.
>>
>>Marc M.
>