If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Sun May 17 04:33:48 UTC 2009
| From: Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net>
| 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).
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list