GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

[Laurent GUERBY]

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:53, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:20:24AM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > Economics. Less true nowadays with Apple decision to sell cheap bi G5
> > systems, but then it's reflected in the TOP500 with a very nice spot for
> > G5.
> 
> IBM has a plan to take the #1 spot once the BlueGene project is complete
> next year; their architecture is PowerPC based (each of its processor
> chips has two PowerPC processors on the chip).  Their 1/128th scale
> prototype is already #73.

That's nice but economics still requires a price tag, and IBM being
the only provider of this technology means the price will likely be high
and most people will still buy x86 boxes (well x86_64 boxes of 2005, you
can buy today 1U quad opterons*), up to a certain size where energy and
space requirements will dictate something else.

Laurent

* http://www.appro.com/product/server_1142h.asp
no idea if it works :)