At 09:51 AM 10/9/98 +0000, Todd Lewis wrote:
>Also on a side note. The time gains comparing the PII333 to my P200
>on roughly halved the time to completion. RC5 tripled in comparison.
>I know one is floating point and RC5 is integer based type math. So
>is there time to be gained in using PII instruction sets?
>
I doubt it is a difference between the Pentium and P-II instruction sets (per
se). Rather, it is probably because the P-II executes some instructions in
fewer clock cycles (in addition to doing more cycles per second).
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