More Drooling Over The Opteron
bradv writes "I havent heard much about the new 64bit chips from AMD lately and was excited to find this article to satisfy my appetite for a little while longer. Probably more info than most people will ever care about. "
> ability to run legacy 32-bit instructions
But, if you read the article, you would have noticed that they mentioned the very poor performance of Opteron while executing those instructions.