File Pro And Bus Errors

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Walter Vaughan (Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:43:09 -0400):
[...]
> I don't know how many of you are following the AMD lawsuit and European
> investigation regarding the ICC compilier, but the short version is that
> the compiler makes code that detects an AMD CPU, and if so purposefully
> inserts code that slows processing down by a significant amount even if
> the chip has all the needed micro-code to process identical to Intel's
> CPU. I've read that the "penalty" that Intel imposes is about 20%.

That's worse than Microsoft's cryptic warning message when starting
Windows (3.1?) if it detected a non-MS version of DOS.  Everything
would run perfectly fine, but the FUD factor of "switch to MS-DOS to
get rid of this nasty warning" was always there.

[...]
> So what would be interesting would be to see if KB has a Athlon machine
> and compiled filePro in a non-broken-AMD-works-for-both-same binary mode
> to see if there is any speedups available to filePro beyond disk
> subsystem limitations.

Alex's system is an Athlon, but it's "only" 1100MHz.

--
KenBrody at BestWeb dot net        spamtrap: <g8ymh8uf001 at sneakemail.com>
http://www.hvcomputer.com
http://www.fileProPlus.com