I miss a lengthy statement about performance issues from Mike. Surely he did longer tests to optimize the decision algorithm. So he knows enought to guide us but he won't or I missed it.
What I know is that in the change history there was a mention of 'optimized for I7' or something. So at least for a short time that looks like the in-house basic CPU for simulations.
We know Mike change LTspice very fast if he decide there is a need to do so. Looking for the time this particular CPU was issued and when the history file filed the revision should give some approximation how much money LTC in average spent for a workstation pc doing simulation work. After this one can stipulate how near is LTC at the 'performance front' of Intel is. (There was a mention that LTspice is optimized for Intel and not for AMD)
- H.
