| From: Steven W. Orr <steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx> | The Intel line is so massively pipelined that it's almost impossible to | write an optimizer that doesn't have to flush its entire cache every few | instructions. Don't confuse companies with technologies. What you don't like is the Pentium 4 design (and things with the same design -- some Celerons, some Xeons, Pentium D, ...). It is the processor with such long pipelines. The Pentium 3 was fine. AMD's K7 was better. Intel thought it could regain the lead with P4. It worked for a while but the experiment seems to have failed in the end. The P4 is history. (Funnily enough, I bought my first P4 CPU today.) The Intel Core 2 is technically ahead of the latest AMD products in most ways. The i7 finally gets an on-chip memory controller (as AMD did way back when, copying the Alpha, if I remember correctly). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
