Mail Archives: pgcc/1999/05/19/18:46:43
At 05:48 PM 5/19/99 -0400, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
>I was wondering if there is any speculation, q's, etc about what the K7
>may be capable of.
well i don't expect too much.
K6-3 should be way faster too than k6-2,
yet a k6-3 at 475Mhz was for my 32 bits programs and some other
32 bits integerprograms slower than a PII-450, although really close
to it. Rounding off it's a PII-450 speed.
Xeon is under linux about 7% faster than a PII of equal Mhz for me.
Of course when using the parallel version, the shared memory rocks on
the Xeon. So will it at a K7.
So whether K7 core is way quicker... ...first see then believe.
>For example:
> Will the K7 be less "register starved" than the rest of the x86
>archictecture, or was this simply not possible while maintaining x86
>compatibility????
> If it will have more registers, how much difference will this make
>performance or optimization-wise??
> Will this be a EGCS thing, or will it be more likely PGCC??
> Anybody know when K7's will be available at a decent price (yes,
>this is probably near to impossible to determine, but it could make an
>interesting point for discussion.)
> Anything more that is AMD &| K7 related.
>
>I'm assuming that a different scheduler will be used, either that or the
>Haifa sched w/ full processor specs.
>
>Anyway, I'm bringing this up due to the (hopefully) soon release of the
>AMD K7 in June or July (I hope so, really I do)
>
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