On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:51:01 +0000, Johannes H Andersen wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote:
[...]
I'd tend to agree with that assumption, but there have been some
benchmarks
done by C't magazine in Germany which suggests that 64-bit performance
on
Nocona (and hence Prescott) isn't as good as its 32-bit performance.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15149
And here's the original article:
http://www.heise.de/ct/04/08/020/
Translated:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D509258F8
I think whatever performance problems that they are talking about
here,
might have to do with the 4GB limit of DMA for this processor.
Yousuf Khan
The machine translation of German is quite amusing. 'Processor
whispers'
is
of course 'Processor rumours', since whispering is sometimes the way
rumours
are spread.
Oh, PLease! A whisper is a physical layer issue, while a rumor is
a link layer. One is a transport mechanism and one is a message.
Rather
like one doesn't scream sweet nothings into one's lover's ears.