Is the Sparc T4 Too Little Too Late?

packetrat writes "Ars Technica reports on Monday's launch of the Sparc T4, and how it finally (nearly 20 years after everyone else) brings out-of-order execution to Sun Sparc ... er, Oracle Sparc. But the benchmarks that Oracle has thrown up (surprise) are a smokescreen for the fact that the processor is still woefully behind state of the art, and it serves mostly as a placeholder to keep the remaining Sparc user base from defecting to Intel — even as Oracle is selling systems based on Intel and Oracle Linux. With the right benchmarks, my minivan outperforms a Maserati. The T4 is a minivan."

Old news

[sunderland56]

Isn't this a repeat from yesterday? [slashdot.org]

Or are we going to see this story once per core?

Re:Old news

[monkeyhybrid]

Yesterday's was the final T4 post, but it's out of order.

Re:SPARC is dead

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't mean to be a know-it-all, but I can't help but correct your grammar error:

Your sentence should read:

"Sorry, for all intensive purposes..."

Don't feel bad, it is a common mistake among so-called "educated" people.