Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:26:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: dg@root.com Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF worldstone (etc.) Message-ID: <199809101926.VAA15764@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199809101515.IAA03269@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Sep 10, 98 08:15:01 am"
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In reply to David Greenman who wrote:
> >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.
I still see the PII/Xeon/todaysbuzzword as an MMX enhanced P6 with
a fast clock rate. So basically it scales upwards with the frequency.
This is also only possible because the memory system is faster, or
it would die from memory starvation.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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