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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:13:00 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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>   Linus> Look at them the right way and you realize that a lot of the
>   Linus> grottyness is exactly _why_ the x86 works so well (yeah, and
>   Linus> the fact that they are everywhere ;).
> 
> But does x86 reall work so well?  Itanium 2 on 0.13um performs a lot
> better than P4 on 0.13um.  As far as I can guess, the only reason P4
> comes out on 0.13um (and 0.09um) before anything else is due to the
> latter part you mention: it's where the volume is today.

Care to share those impressive benchmark numbers (for macro-benchmarks)?
Would be interesting to see the difference, and where it wins.

Thanks,

M

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