Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 01:40:25 -0500 From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: P-II vs K6-2 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990317014025.006ffd90@mail.embt.com>
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>Whether you get better performance out of a small, fast L2 cache or a >larger, slower one depends entirely on the application. It would be >really interesting to see some figures here instead of theory. > >Greg This would be a fun area to do some benchmarking in. I think a few people have said that certain 3D first person shooter games under Win95 benefitted from the faster, but smaller, cache of the Celeron. I would not be surprised, however, if the big slow cache of a real P2 held a slight edge in an environment with lots of separate threads each doing, say, compiling or something. Anybody care to run some tests? (I don't have a P2-anything) Tom Embt ICQ UIN: 11245398 tom@embt.com d:-)> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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