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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 05:47:35 08/13/98

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I'm not sure if you're complicating the issue or simplifying it too much.

Here are the reasons why the PII/300 is faster than the P5/200:
1) higher clock speed (50% faster)
2) improved core (~50% faster)
3) faster L2 cache (~100% faster)

Now, when program X scales exceptionally well, the most important factor is
probably the faster L2 cache, simply because of the percentages above. That
should explain my original post on the subject.

-Tom



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