>On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 12:11:12PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: >> Upendra wrote: <SNIP> >> > The HP RISC cpu could be actually faster than PIII, as the clock cycles >> > are much lower for RISC chips. (see also clock cycles for sparc). >Its simple, because of the reduced instruction set, RISC cpus take less clock cycles. >I dont have exact numbers, its a well known fact that Sparc CPUs deliver higher >performance than Intel chips at nearly half clock speed. >Even in the Intel world clock speeds are deceptive, see the P-4 fiasco. Knowing how >gullible the public are, chip makers are focussing more on increasing clock speeds >than give real world performance.</SNIP> What kind of a fiasco ? any URL for more info ?? ---------------------------------------------- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
