Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:57:01 04/17/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 13:54:13, Christophe Theron wrote: >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. Doesn't that mean that a 16 MHz Palm is not much faster than a ONE MHz Pentium would be?? And if so, how in heck can Chess Tiger be so strong on a 16 MHz Palm??
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