Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:54:13 04/17/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 12:08:41, stuart taylor wrote:
>On April 17, 2002 at 01:16:52, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2002 at 00:04:29, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>On April 16, 2002 at 17:08:56, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 16, 2002 at 11:55:24, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On April 16, 2002 at 10:29:47, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Sorry for the bad news, but my friend asked me yesterday to return his old
>>>>>>Pentium MMX 166 Mhz computer, since his wife decided to donate it to a local
>>>>>>school. I noticed that this old Pentium MMX 166 Mhz was almost as fast as a
>>>>>>Pentium MMX 200 Mhz.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Pichard
>>>>>
>>>>>Never mind. I guess that the hardware difference was way larger than originally
>>>>>intended in this match.
>>>>>IMHO, the tiger did very well in spite of the large disadvantage.
>>>>>Anyway, thanks for performing the interesting match, Jorge.
>>>>>
>>>>>Uli
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Yep... Could have been worse... :-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>I thought it could have been much better.
>>>Palm is 54mhz, and compared to 166, it's only around x3, which is very little.
>>>Much less than 1-ply. And isn't the programing of Tiger one of the greatest?
>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>You are wrong by dividing Mhz.
>>Mhz means nothing
>>
>>I am sure that the pentium is more than 10 times faster.
>>palm tiger in the ssdf games searches only some hundreds of nodes per second.
>>
>>I guess that the palm is at least 50 times slower.
>>
>>Uri
>
>If you know, you know!
>S.Taylor
Uri is right.
This is a very precious advice for your future hardware purchases: do not ever
take MHz as a measure of speed. NEVER.
The DragonBall inside the Palms need approx. 15 clock cycles (average) to
complete one instruction.
The Pentium needs approximately one clock cycle per instruction (actually I
think it is 0.9 clock/instruction).
The DragonBall has no L1 cache (not sure it needs one anyway).
The reason for this difference is the number of transistors in each processor,
and the power consumption.
If you just count the MHz difference, you are going to be 15 times OFF the real
number.
FORGET ABOUT MHZ, IT MEANS NOTHING.
Christophe
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