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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>On the other hand the Xeon is only faster because of raw clockspeed (as
>expected, same arch as the p6)

   Actually, that is not true. The chipset in the Xeon machine from Intel
has an extremely fast memory subsystem (something like 2Gbytes/second),
and of course the CPU is PII technology, which has larger L1 and L2 caches
than the P6.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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