jep@jephill.com wrote:
and two, floating point is slower than Intel,
Yes, but if you want FP, don't you buy Alpha?
Not if you want to run x86 binaries natively. So if the applications that you want to run are native to x86, and floating point performance matters to you, intel processors are clearly superior. x86 emulation on Alpha is not a viable option, and with the combination of: A) intel processors with greater clock speed are released with such frequency that before long Alpha's edge will be history, as will Alpha I'm afraid. I have no faith in Compaq to succeed where Digital couldn't. b) x86 emulation on Alpha now runs 50% of native intel speed, but with faster and faster intels being released that performance gap will soon be more like 25-300f native intel speed, which is unacceptable -- ==================================================================== Michael Lankton <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org</A</A>> ==================================================================== - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e