Re: Yikes!!! New 200Mhz Intel P6 Benchmarks

glew@ichips.intel.com (Andy Glew)
Thu, 9 Nov 1995 07:32:26 GMT

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Re: Yikes!!! New 200Mhz Intel P6 Benchmarks glew@ichips.intel.com (1995-11-09)
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From: glew@ichips.intel.com (Andy Glew)
Keywords: optimize, architecture, 586
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 07:32:26 GMT



>Mark Hahn <hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> [much deleted]
>>
>>look folks, PDF is nothing magical, and it's certainly not the sole
>>reason that the P6 is showing up as so damned fast. PDF has been around
>>a long time - I think I first saw it on MIPS Rx000 compilers, circa
>>88 or so. PDF mostly just lets you predict branches a little better.
>
>Whatever it is in the compiler, it appears to have boosted the performance
>of the P5 as well. I haven't had a chance to check for myself, but it
>was said here that the P5 went from 155 to 190 SPECint92. Incidentally,
>the reported SPECint92 for the P6-150 MHz , 276 ~= 225 * 190/155
>where 225 was the reported SPECint92 for the chip in July.
>
>-arun gupta




Anecdote time: one of the most annoying things, as an architect
working with the compiler writers for P6, was that much of the time,
when we suggested a compiler optimization, intended to help P6, it
would often help P5 as well - often more than it helped P6!


Whattaya want to do: *NOT* improve the performance of your shipping
processor!?!




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