Replies to post #7170 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[borusa]

Chipguy, True. But for an ankle biting dog a giant leap is reaching your calves. Quite annoying
but you still aren't worried about protecting your throat unless you trip and can't get up
again.

Thats the first sensible thing I have been able to understand. :)

But, there is an area just below the equator...

[Haddock]

"In the SPEC CPU 2000 independent testing comparing the Power Mac G5 against leading 3.0 GHz Pentium 4-based systems and 3.06 GHz Dual Xeon-based systems, the Power Mac G5 won three out of four key benchmark tests. All tests were run with the same industry standard GCC 3.3 compiler to insure a fair comparison;

Sounds fair to me :-) http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030623/sfm092_1.html

Here are the detailed SPEC tests
http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/apple/apple_performance.pdf

I'd love to see Intel respond by
a) Showing how much performance they can squeeze out of gcc3.3
b) Submitting a performance patch for the P4 for gcc3.4