Mon, 17 Jan 2000 Paolo Mantegazza wrote:
> David Olofson wrote:
>
> > Celeron CPUs are faster than PII/III, thanks to the full core speed cache
> > (PII and old PIII run the cache at 50% of the core clock). Interrupt
> > handlers can go a bit higher than tasks, since the scheduler overhead
> > is avoided.
>
> Be warned that's no more true on newest PIIIs, half cache (256 K) at
> full CPU speed.
Yep, I noticed some buiders sell machines with those. The 1U rackmount Penguin
seems to be a nice variant... :-)
(Hmm... It'd be cool to use one as a virtual memory sampler or something - any
chance of fitting an RME Hammerfall digital audio interface in that box...?)
> Moreover Celeron were faster only if you did not need a
> lot of floating point computation on large matrices, e.g. advanced state
> space controllers, in real time tasks.
Right, no KNI on Celeron...
BTW, any rumors about full speed cache Athlons? That'd probably blow away all
competiton (in the x86 compatible field), even when dealing with low latency RT.
Regards,
//David
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