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To: Jacques Hugo <jacques@wired.ctech.ac.za>
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Subject: Re: mmx or ppro 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:55:12 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:46:14 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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In message <34432560.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za>,   you write:
>Hi there ...
>
>Which Intel technology, MMX or PRO, gives better performance
>for fbsd.  Anyone have experience on both?
>

My understanding is ppro gives highest performance per clock.

PPro and pentium II have backside caches on a private bus, 
pentium does not (I think).

This seems to make a substantial difference.

marty