[linux-audio-dev] Athlon64 .. performance boost ?

[Taybin Rutkin]

>From my understanding, they are completely different chips with different instruction sets.  I seriously doubt the intel compiler will produce x86-64 instructions.  Not to mention the business perspective...

Taybin

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Webb <magusofthedark at yahoo.com>
Sent: Oct 16, 2003 11:51 AM
To: 
	The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List <linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Athlon64 .. performance boost ?

I know the Intel C++ compiler isn't free software (you
can get it free as in beer to compile open source
apps, though), but it's avail for Itanium.. I don't
know how well it works with AMD's stuff. It's my
compiler of choice.

--- Robert Jonsson <robert.jonsson at dataductus.se> 
> But... guessing is but all we can do (i guess),
> until gcc (or similar?) 
> supports this processor well...unless they already
> do so(?)...

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
http://shopping.yahoo.com