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> The Apache #’s pretty much give the game away: An Itanium clocked 50% higher was losing to a 2yo Alpha by about 20% on throughput at peak. This is not just
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
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The Apache #’s pretty much give the game away: An Itanium clocked 50% higher was losing to a 2yo Alpha by about 20% on throughput at peak.
This is not just a benchmark of the CPUs, but also of the compilers involved. It is well-known that it was very hard to write a compiler that generates programs that could harness the optimization potential of Itanium's instruction set.