Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

David Mosberger
2003-02-24T02:58:40Z

>>>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:54:41 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:

Linus> In other words, the P4 eats the Itanium for breakfast even if
Linus> you limit it to 2GHz due to some "process" rule.

Ugh, 842 vs 810 is "eating for breakfast"? In my lexicon, that's "in
the same ballpark".

Besides the 2GHz Xeon MP is a 0.13um part.

>> You claimed that x86 is inherently superior. I provided data that
>> shows that much of this apparent superiority is simply an effect of
>> the larger volume that x86 achieves today.

Linus> And I showed that your data is flawed.

No, you did not.

--david