GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

[Joe Buck]

I wrote:
> > 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.
 
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 01:10:59AM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> 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.

They are going for "fastest", not "best price/performance".  And the buyer
for the first one is a military lab.  I could certainly talk more about
it, but it's off-topic for this list, so I'll stop now.