So, looking for wiggle room?
O Plameras wrote: > So, what is 'clock cycle' in your definition ? My defintion like yours is irrelevant. However, a generally accepted definition is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_cycle > This definition is crucial if we want to > compare apples-with-apples. How does it relate to CPU speed ? There is no direct relationship. > And how do you measure CPU performance ? I think performance benchmarks are the best measure of CPU performance. > And remember, I was talking x86 CPU family and not AMD. Have a look at this article: http://techreport.com/reviews/2001q3/piii-1.2/index.x?pg=1 On the third page: But the Pentium 4's deeply pipelined design can't deliver the same performance, clock for clock, that the Athlon or Pentium III can. Ignore the Athlon for the moment, but notice how the review is comparing Pentium 4 with Pentium III, both members of the x86 family. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Projects promoting programming in natural language are intrinsically doomed to fail." -- Edsger Dijkstra -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
