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<p>Stu, <br>
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<p>I gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Prentice </pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/20/2018 09:03 PM, Stu Midgley
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<div>But the point of what I was saying is that we DID get real
meaningful speedup with just a recompile... we got enough
performance to invest heavily in the technology (it made sense
from a $$ perspective).</div>
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<div>Then, every day for years, we got more and more
performance, which made the position even more compelling.</div>
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<p>Seems to be in agreement with this one I made: <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Then when Intel's MIC processors
finally did come out, guess what? You <br>
*did* have to rewrite your code to get any meaningful
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<div dir="ltr">Dr Stuart Midgley<br>
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