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SM-Bot
26 Jan 2004, 3:30pm
The German magazine c't has reported that a new Intel V8 compiler can boost the performance of Intel platforms by as much as 10%, but suprisinly also does the same on AMD Athlon64 platforms, when suitably tweaked.

According to our correspondent, the compiler switch -QxN produces x86 code which runs only on P4 CPUs, not on AMD CPUs. However, the boffins at c't used the -QxN to produce code, patched out the CPU type inquiry and so managed to get the code to run on the Athlon64.

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