Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:37:15 +0200 From: "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Message-ID: <00d701c0cedc$1ee190c0$6405a8c0@neland.dk> References: <200104171836.LAA06378@akira.lanfear.com> <000001c0c777$f9529b30$215778d8@cx443070b> <20010426175906.B88522@peorth.iteration.net> <3AE8D4DC.E0E35042@bellatlantic.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sergey Babkin" <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com>; <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:09 AM Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium > Anothing interesting point is that the optimisation for IA-64 > seems to be highly processor-specific: the code optimized for > Itanium won't be optimal for McKinley and vice versa. I've heard > an estimation of about 1.5 times speed increase due to the > model-specific optimisation. > Perhaps commercial software will need to come in (encrypted) source and be compiled to the the current processor... Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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