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I figure that Intel's P4E (Prescott) design has several crucial changes that should effect DC projects. The "Improved Shift" is 50% faster than comapred to Northwood. The trace and L2 caches are double what they were over Prescott. The branch predictor is .1% better than Northwood, which makes a difference when we are talking literally BILLIONS of computations. The imul Latency is 200% faster. I'm sure there are more but I'm going by the numbers from here.
Does all this make a difference for any DC projects?
Does all this make a difference for any DC projects?