Jan Slodicka wrote:
processor clock speeds are really only useful for comparing speed between 2 of the same chips. even comparing processor speeds between pIII and p4 is a little shakey.m515 run the program (approx.) 1000x slower than the PC whereas the processor speed differs by a factor 50 only. CE machine was only 2 times slower than the processor speed difference would suggest.As the last thing I wrote an easy stupid benchmark program consisting of loops and additions. The results were a bit better, but the Palm was still 10x slower than the processor speeds would suggest.
clock speeds are a very imprecise measure for the speed of a computer, even with just the CPUs. Add to that all the differences of I/O, memory, caching, instruction sets, having or not having a FPU, pipelining and everthing else that is different and the clock speed is pretty much useless for comparing speeds between to machines.
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