Steve Lionel, lid van de Compaq Fortran Engineering group, heeft op het forum van Ace's Hardware een reactie geplaatst op het eerdere nieuws van Heise Online dat de nieuwe CVF6.5 compiler op Athlon systemen een performance boost van 15% geeft. Volgens Steve zijn dit geen cijfers die afkomstig van Compaq, maar is AMD waarschijnlijk zelf tot dit resultaat gekomen. Steve laat tevens weten dat de nieuwe optimalisaties in de CVF6.5 compiler bestaan uit data-prefetch instructies voor de PIII en Athlon:
I'm a member of the Compaq Fortran engineering group. Please allow me to shed some light on a few aspects of this story.
1. CVF 6.5 includes new optimizations for both Athlon/Duron (and also to a lesser extent, K6-2 and K6), plus Pentium III. In both cases, the only new instructions the compiler currently generates are the data-prefetch instructions. We're not generating the SIMD instructions yet - that's something we're looking at; they're not always a win.
2. You won't find it on our web site yet because we're waiting for the kits to make their way into the reseller channel before spiking demand. This should happen over the next two weeks. Upgrades from versions 6.0 or 6.1 will be available at a discount for registered users - see the web site for more info when available.
3. I'm not sure where the 15% figure comes from, but I think that AMD did see a boost of about that much for SPECfp2000 when compared to our 6.1 compiler. I intend to have some "numbers" on our web site when we go public with the new version.