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Subject: Re: Importance of L2 cache speed/size for diff programs (was:..Genius speed?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 03:59:14 08/12/98

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On August 12, 1998 at 04:48:56, fca wrote:

>I tend to agree with Bob - as you recall, the parentage of this discussion was
>my surprise that such a huge speed ratio for Junior existed between the P200MMX
>and P2/300, which others later attributed to L2-cache size/MHz.  I disagreed.

I didn't say L2 cache is the only reason it's faster. The P6 core is maybe
35-75% faster than the P5 core. I assume you knew this. I was just pointing out
that with the faster core and the faster L2 cache speed, the performance
difference you see is explainable.

-Tom



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