Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:26:57 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What makes Centrino so fast? Message-ID: <20040311024415.R68396@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <404FAC50.6070603@pythonemproject.com> References: <404FAC50.6070603@pythonemproject.com>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, 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 > it has 1mb 1.7ghz l2 cache? it also probably has a tweaked version of the P3 core (with sse2 added) instead of P4 core. but intel doesn't talk much about how the centrino core is different (in non-marketing terms) from p6 (used in ppro/pii/piii) or pentium4 core. > Is it just compiler optimization at play? > > Sincerely, > > Rob >
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