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From: | Marcus G. Daniels |
Subject: | Re: [Swarm-Modelling] i7 processors |
Date: | Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:07:48 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
Steve Railsback wrote:
Does anyone have experience with the new Core i7 processors and how they compare to Core Duo etc. for Swarm (or similar) models?I would be surprised if i7 would lose on any ABM workload, just because of memory bandwidth and also perhaps also because of improvements to the branch predictor. If you had a single threaded workload with a set of frequently-interacting agents that happened to fit in the larger Core Duo second level cache, but otherwise would constantly spill out of the Nehalem L2, then maybe the Core Duo would win.
Marcus
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