Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:39:04 02/12/03
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On February 12, 2003 at 04:57:35, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 12, 2003 at 02:21:38, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>That is a problem on every architecture. A lower clock speed actually helps in a >>way -- fewer cycles get wasted, so a lower percentage of the machine's power is >>wasted idling. McKinley runs at 1 GHz meaning that 1 cycle = 1 ns. Typical >>latency for SDRAM seems to be 100-133 ns. RDRAM is worse, but I don't have >>figures for RDRAM. (IIRC, McKinley only runs on RDRAM.) > >And the advantage of a Honda Civic at a drag race is that it uses less gas. > >-Tom Not true. Drop down to Alabama Saturday night. I'll take you over to the Steele Alabama international drag strip and show you a Civic that runs on the street, yet sucks the rims off every Z corvette running. Oh yes, it does have a blower, and it does run in the 11's, and it _does_ suck gas. As Einstein said, "everything is relative." :)
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