Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 14:17:04 04/17/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 13:57:01, Roy Eassa wrote: >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?? It's a fantastic program !
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