EMT64 SMP Test

[Steve Thompson]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Jerone Young wrote:

> Try the FC3 X86_64 realease candidate (just look at archive on list)
> and see if everything works out. I wouldn't mind seeing how much
> slower the EMT64 is compared to a true X86_64 CPU like the AMD Opteron
> :-)

I have both a dual 2.2 GHz Opteron and a dual 3.6 GHz EM64T (an HP
xw8200). On all of the codes that we have tested, the Opteron is between
30% and 50% faster than the EM64T.

-s