Re: Why Alpha? (aka: is it worth it?)

Wes Bauske (wsb@paralleldata.com)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 02:58:38 +0000

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Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>
> Munagala V. S. Ramanath wrote:
> >
> > There was one guy who posted here a few weeks ago about running
> > a loop which simply computed sqrt(). The 450MHz Pentium II
> > outperformed the 533MHz Alpha.
>
> Big deal! Pentium has sqrt in silicon while Alpha, as RISC, in an
> external library.

Multiple RISC implementations have sqrt() in silicon.
It can improve performance significantly just by not
having the function call overhead.

Wes

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