Well, memory hardly makes a difference for compilation or benchmarks since the comparision buxes have 1 GB or more memory with plenty free.
My conclusion is that for every day tasks, which doesn't benefit greatly from the 1 MB cache, it's of similar speed (somewhat faster) than Athlon MP at the same clock frequency. This is pretty decent since it IS running in 64-bit mode rather than 32-bit. Also mind you this is without ANY architecture specific optimizations (unless they are enabled by default in the compiler).
For tasks where cache memory is more important such as 3D rendering, compilation etc, it SHOULD be faster. However I can't really compare compilation of Pike since it depends a lot of what libraries I have installed. Should compile some other big project without external dependencies and compare that.
/ David Hedbor
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2003-04-07 20:30: Subject: Re: First Opteron?
In other words you really have no clue how much faster it is, since 5GB (or whatever) memory is probably the most significant difference.
/ Martin Nilsson (har bott i google)