Re: Hammer

["W Bauske" <wsb paralleldata com>]

Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> 
> unlike Itanium which still doens't replace the P4 (nor does the P4
> really replace the P3 in performance for that matter ;-).
> 

This is off topic but I've used Athlon, Athlon MP, PIII, and P4's, and 
I can say that for my production codes, P4 is king. Itanium is very good 
for it's clock rate from what I've read, and if you truly want the fastest 
microprocessor, price no object, buy the new Power4 based IBM pSeries 
690 Turbo. It's SpecFP2000 is 1169. Alphas aren't particularly close 
at 784. (DS20E/833 is the fastest Alpha at SpecFP2000)


Wes