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Subject: Re: 8 way processor

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:16:18 08/22/02

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On August 22, 2002 at 15:18:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 22, 2002 at 15:17:55, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>thanks: sorry for the obvious quesion but how fast is a 4 way compared to a
>>single or a 2 way(i assume a 2 way is about 1.75 times a single)
>
>4 way is about 3 times faster than a single
>
>--
>GCP


I don't think he was talking about chess.  He was talking about number-crunching
in general I assume.  So the right answer is nearly 1.7 for a dual, nearly 4.0
for a quad, and nearly 6.8 for an 8-way box.



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