Subj : Fun job quirks
To   : Rocko
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Aug 05 2004 02:30 am

  Re: Fun job quirks
  By: Rocko to All on Thu Aug 05 2004 02:05 am

 > Working in the software research group at AMD has unforeseen quirks.  One
 > of my coworkers got to tell some folks at Microsoft that they stuff they're
 > having us profile right now runs terribly, and they were forced to agree.
 > It's one of those rare moments when Microsoft doesn't really get its way.
 > Of course, they've put off shipping an AMD-64 compliant OS once already,
 > but that just means Linux gets an even firmer hold in the server market.
 > 
 > The other time was when Microsoft decided they'd be happy if their 64-bit
 > compiled code ran just as fast as the 32-bit compiled code, to AMD's dismay.
 > In the middle of all this, gcc was getting help making their compilers
 > take advantage of 64-bit.  Lo and behold, Microsoft runs it occasionally
 > benchmarks against gcc, and suddenly 64-bit optimization becomes a priority!
 > 
 > I wish this 64-bit lala land would last forever . . . ;)

Thems "perks", not "quirks"! :-)

                                                  digital man

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