Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to AMD .vs Intel; GCC et all

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Posted by Edmund Lian on
Clock-for-clock, an AMD Athlon is generally faster regardless of whether the app is integer or floating point intensive. In fact, an Athlon is faster even if the Intel CPU is clocked at a higher rate. Here, I'm referring to a P3.

Turns out that Athlons are faster than the new P4 too, even if the latter is clocked at a higher speed. It could be partially because of the lack of GCC optimizations for the P4. See http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/13/145249 for more info.