Thor Lancelot Simon said:

>The truth is, if your compiler is good enough to always output SSE code
>for all floating-point operations (including "scalar" ones) so you never
>pay the huge penalty for switching back and forth to x87 mode, P4 beats
>the pants off anything else that will execute x86 instructions.

But I don't think that gcc is currently up to level.

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