D programs broken at Language Shootout

[Sean Kelly]

Don Clugston wrote:
> 
> Ironic. But IMHO, the P4's a horrible chip, and was never going to be 
> the basis for future CPUs. Driven by marketing (highest clock speed at 
> all costs, even though it makes it slower). Did awful things to the x87 
> performance, too.

Yup.  I never understood all the hype, when the P4 actually performed 
slower than the P3.  I think the P4 was probably responsible for Intel 
losing a lot of market share to AMD.


Sean