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I might just have to get one of those.A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.Comment
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So AMD eliminated SIMD (3dNow) and have deprecated it with their version of SSE.
Unfortunately, Intel won't license SSE4.x to AMD, so AMD has taken to suing Intel and crying foul.
Don't get me wrong... I despise Intel, even a little more than I despise AMD, but until AMD gets the later SSE4 iterations, their chips will fall behind Intel's."We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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So what affect will that have on programmers? As far as I can tell, their options are:
1. Write it Intel only with SSE4.
2. Write it twice, once for AMD and once for Intel.
3. Write it to be compatible with both, and sacrifice performance.
Which one do they usually pick?A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.Comment
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They usually pick number 1, because they like to use Intel's compilers.
As part of their settlement Intel has to make their compilers take advantage of SSE4a, but that's like telling two children to play nice together."We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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wrong, atleast now.
in the past intel tools ruled,
but with more & more use of Linux & OSX a lot of coders are using unified source and compilling with GCC.
GCC has optimisation options,
so you may still see 2 executables in the future.Comment
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No, they're not programming games (And I am talking exclusively of games or video-related apps) with GCC. They're using Windows platform tools which have very mature SSE4.x code. Video encoding and graphics animation, Intel blows AMD away.
Speaking of integer... Even the K6-2 was faster than the pentium 2 in integer apps."We have offered them (the Arabs) a sensible way for so many years. But no, they wanted to fight. Fine! We gave them technology, the latest, the kind even Vietnam didn't have. They had double superiority in tanks and aircraft, triple in artillery, and in air defense and anti-tank weapons they had absolute supremacy. And what? Once again they were beaten. Once again they scrammed [sic]. Once again they screamed for us to come save them. Sadat woke me up in the middle of the night twice over the phone, 'Save me!' He demanded to send Soviet troops, and immediately! No! We are not going to fight for them."
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eh lol i am still useing a socket 478 pentium 4 and its still better then any duel cores out today besides the i7My Computer.
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i never mentioned games.
a lot of scientific app's are compiled with GCC.
what is funny, i'v known coders to download GCC source and compile it with the intel compiler.Comment
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This^^Originally posted by Phaihn View Post
I loled
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/c...hmarks,16.html"The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."Comment
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wtf is a duel core? two cores that fight each other for ram?
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This is like a Honda Civic driver saying his car will kick the shit out of one of TC's Z cars
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only when driving between bollards
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lol bollard runner fails.... man. seeing one live is just.... weird. can't really describe it.Comment
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i used to see bollard incidents every day.
there are a pair near me set as a width restriction to slow trafic & block trucks.
it's funny, people with big cars just smoke through, but people with toys like civic's and escorts etc go real slow like they think the cars bigger than it is.
anyway, the fun is when you get the van drivers from the courior company's.
they smoke through these things and forget the wing mirrors stick out about a foot each side - boom!
i swear the ground is covered in smashed plastic & bits of mirror every time i go past!
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lol ricer slowness fails eh?
it must be fun to hear "ca clunk" or "bschcrack" all the time.Comment
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i'm only surprised that nobody has opened a carspares shop nearby!Comment
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I thought we were discussing AMD's new processor?
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