On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 at 02:36, Michael Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com> wrote: > > I'm confused by this. You are claiming that a 350 Mhz K6-2 is "WAY" faster > than a 3.3 GHz i5? In what respect?
You are very much not alone. There is a _lot_ of caching involved in modern computer architectures, of course. There needs to be, given the disparity between processor speeds and storage speed. However, it's very much not all about caching. There are lots of other speedup techniques employed since the era of the 80386DX: scalar processing, pipelines superscalar processing (multiple pipelines), instruction decomposition to micro-ops, out of order execution, branch prediction, speculative execution, and more. Saying that a Core i7 with the caches all disabled is no quicker than a 386 is as absurd as saying "well a Ferrari is no quicker than a Model T Ford, and that had a 2.9 litre engine!" -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
