Hallo Herr Rugxulo,

am Montag, 20. März 2023 um 23:20 schrieben Sie:

> Hi again,

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is something much more serious than a "tradeoff" or a
>> "regression".  My new i5 CPU appears to be spending _at least_ 99%
>>  of its resources NOT processing OpCodes and NOT accessing the
>>  cache (because there isn't one).  And the problem is blamed on
>> "sub-optimal code".  I don't know what the CPU is doing with all
>> those resources it has, but I do know what it's NOT doing.  I do know
>> that what's going on inside a CPU is very complicated.  Call me naive,
>> but I always thought the primary purpose of a CPU was to process
>> OpCodes.  Silly me.
>>
>> >>  I think it probably
>> >> would be -- I certainly think it would be WAY faster than my 3.3 GHz
>> >> i5.
>>
>> > nope.
>>
>> Even though a 350 MHz K6-2 is WAY faster than my 3.3 GHz i5?
>> And again, I know it doesn't make any sense, but it's still true.

> Self-modifying code??

no, it's not Self-modifying code.


Tom



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