Linus> Look at them the right way and you realize that a lot of the
Linus> grottyness is exactly _why_ the x86 works so well (yeah, and
Linus> the fact that they are everywhere ;).
But does x86 reall work so well? Itanium 2 on 0.13um performs a lot
better than P4 on 0.13um. As far as I can guess, the only reason P4
comes out on 0.13um (and 0.09um) before anything else is due to the
latter part you mention: it's where the volume is today.
--david
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