Author: stuart taylor
Date: 02:46:05 04/18/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 19:13:38, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 So even Pocket computer (ipac) and even ARM palm will only be like about 15 Mhz.of a pentium? Does this follow in both of these? S.Taylor
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