Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:55:39 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What makes Centrino so fast? Message-ID: <200403111155.39591.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <404FAC50.6070603@pythonemproject.com> References: <404FAC50.6070603@pythonemproject.com>
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:31, Rob wrote: > I have my own benchmark program that I use for number crunching. > It uses a mixture of Python and Numeric Python. > > Athlon 2166Mhz as reported by OS: 2m38.7s > Intel Centrino Pentium 1700 Mhz: 2m17s > > Is it just compiler optimization at play? Here's an interesting article on it -> http://arstechnica.com/cpu/004/pentium-m/pentium-m-1.html but in short.. better branch prediction, and micro-architecture improvments in general, and a slightly longer pipeline (for higher clocks vs a PIII) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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