Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:13:38 04/17/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 17:17:04, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>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 !
Oh... Hem... (blush) :-)
Christophe
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