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It does illustrate a point, though. I would guess Intel is faster overall, but for the right applications POWER and SPARC can be faster.
by tormeh 12y ago
It does illustrate a point, though. I would guess Intel is faster overall, but for the right applications POWER and SPARC can be faster.
- yellowapple 12y agoNamely, most applications that benefit from parallelism will benefit from POWER or SPARC, since both platforms pack a high number of cores and a high number of concurrent threads per core. This doesn't sound like much for consumer devices (PowerPC was the gold standard for gaming consoles last generation, but now Nintendo's the only one still using POWER in any significant application), but with Erlang/Elixir and Scala (among other languages renowned for facilitating "easy" parallelism) being the latest hot shit right now, these advantages are going to be much more significant.