How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?

Re:How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86? by stuartc842 on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:03PM (#22283697)

>turns out the Office team had a single Alpha in their pipeline, set to compile -O0, and pretty much said "this is there to check the lawsuit checkmark"

what does this mean? compile -O0? lawsuit checkmark?

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Re:How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86? by detaro on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:05PM (#22283712)

-O0 means compiling without optimization. Presumably they were contractually required to have a version Office for Alpha, so they did the minimum effort thing to produce one.

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Re:How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86? by mega_dingus on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:36PM (#22283878)

Exactly this

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