[CentOS] CentOS4_64 On Dell
Peter Farrow
peter at farrows.org
Tue May 3 08:56:34 UTC 2005
You may of course believe what you like.......
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>On Tue, 3 May 2005 at 9:47am, Peter Farrow wrote
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>>"based on the same x86_64 technology that AMD introduced with their Opterons."
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>If you didn't top post, you wouldn't have to re-type my quote.
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>>Not on planet earth I'm afraid....
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>Err, what are you talking about? EM64T (as an instruction set) is
>literally a clone of AMD64. Not a perfect one, of course, as there are
>differences. There are also differences in implementation, the most
>glaring of which being AMD's very smart move of putting the memory
>controller on the CPU and connecting the CPUs via HyperTransport. This
>leads to much better scaling vs. Intel's continued reliance on the
>bottleneck that is the shared memory controller hub.
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>But the bottom line is that if you compile code for an x86_64 target (and
>don't put in any Intel or AMD specific optimizations), it'll run on either
>chip.
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