Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[neye_eve]

as I said, it's pointless

... but I still find it amusing. I looked here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/ipf/ia32el.mspx
and found:
Performance will vary by application when using IA-32 EL. For 32-bit managed code applications (for example, those built on the .NET Framework), Microsoft recommends using native 32-bit hardware.

Sounds like this is much better than the initial incarnation of 32-bit code performance. I hadn't heard about this, and that's actually pretty good, it seems. I thus amend my statement to read:

It's also accurate to say that this year's IPF performs about the same as the P4s from 2.5 years ago

:D

neye