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The vast majority of software developers does not use a language that would allow for these specific optimizations. The use of the optimizations arises from the way their compiler works.
For example the GNU C Compiler can compile the software for any enstablished CPU of choice.. software is generally compiled for the Intel 386 processor, with added optional optimizations for MMX and the various SSEs. Similar applies for how Microsoft compiles it's software (okay, short of the DirectX drivers). Yet all this software appears to perform better on AMD processors.
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:30:35 +0200, Mxsmanic It was very easy to build an AMD based system that was quieter than Intel w-Intel-retail sink-fan combination. Intel's fans from...
That only really applies for benchmarking software and certain performance-critical code here and there. Nothing to do with general performance.
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:11:52 +1000, "Rod Speed" I'm quite content to have you think that Rod, and plenty of people were quite happy to have a quieter fan...
Beside CPUs are primarily built to perform well with software compiled with a specific compiler. Compilers are only adapted to utilize special features of various CPUs.
And your knowledge of software construction is nearing -20% of what it should be to make that buttessment.
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:50:40 +0200, Mxsmanic That is a reason to more carefully scrutinize the failure...
Programs depend heavily on the code present in the OS, thus it is important that the OS is built for speed and compiled to the proper architecture.
Also, you would probably like to know that in Linux, once the OS of choice compiled to the proper architecture is installed, practically all consequent software installed is also of the exact same architecture (either selected from available sources or automatically compiled for the exact hardware the Linux system is running on).
The AMD processors I was looking at were cheaper than the Intel ones I've compared the performance to.
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