Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:08:51 06/28/03
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On June 28, 2003 at 13:07:13, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On June 28, 2003 at 04:30:27, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On June 27, 2003 at 19:01:16, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On June 27, 2003 at 04:26:25, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>G5 is the same core as the POWER4, which has been around for a while now. >>> >>>It's very similar, but not exactly the same core. In particular, I think >>>instruction bundling/tracking works differently. >> >>Where did you get this information? > >Sorry, I was wrong about the difference in instruction bundling/tracking. But I >still maintain that it's not exactly the same core, because of various other >differences. Why's that? I haven't read anywhere that there are any core changes, other than the addition of AltiVec if you consider that a core change. Bus + cache + SMP glue are obviously different... -Tom
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