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Subject: Re: Multiple processors on one chip...

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:44:41 03/05/00

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On March 05, 2000 at 14:38:16, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>You forget that P6/PII/PIII can run at much faster frequence - exactly because
>of a longer pipeline (and P5 is no exception here, please look at the PPC - it
>also have a very short pipeline, so it cannot run fast enough to remain
>competive with Intel). So when you are comparing them at the same frequence you
>are not doing the right thing.

Yeah, it's an oversimplification of the issue. There are other things to
consider, too, like uops vs. x86 ops, and the P6's "extra" load/store units. I
think the argument got pretty far off-topic.

But I still think that saying the P6's pipes are more full than the P5's pipes
without proof is pretty ballsy, for the reason I explained.

-Tom



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