> > Brilliant. You need what, a 6x larger cache just to break even with
> > the amount of time you're running in-cache?
>
> This may be the wrong platform for this question, but after reading Rob
> Landley's note on performance on Itanium and architecture concerns, I am
> interested in Kernel hackers who have had to write code for Itanium's
> comments on the same, if you are not bound by NDA's. Correct me if I am
> wrong, but I thought I saw the announcement that Itanium is shipping. Have
> you tested Itanium performance? We have an preproduction unit with quad
> Itanium's. I have not had time to benchmark against other units, I am
> interested in performance items. Feel free to drop me a line off list if
> you can.
A number of Specbench numbers of Itanium systems is now available. Itanium
performs relativly bad for the integer numbers compared to the entire
competition but is a true fp killer. As a developer I hate that compiling
code for Itanium due to the extra complexity of optimization and code
generation is way slower than for others CPUs. So all in all Itanium is
a two edged sword.
Ralf
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