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A small comment on an otherwise great article:
Bryan J. Smith: ...even 3-year old, 600MHz 0.35um Alpha 264s
_outperforms_ that same Itanium by an even wider margin! [How AMD and its partners are putting x86 back on the right track]
This seems to be based on comparing floating-point performance, an area Intel processors have traditionally been poor at. But the performance of most desktop and server computers on the planet is not affected by FPU performance. Cache/memory effects, context-switch slowdowns, and (to a lesser degree) multi-processor synchronization issues are far more important in the real world.
Intel understands that.
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