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Subject: Re: C speed question.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:23:28 07/25/99

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On July 25, 1999 at 02:38:08, blass uri wrote:

>I am interested to know the speed improvement that you get from celeron relative
>to pentium200MMX in C chess programs.
>
>Can you get more than 100% speed improvement?
>What is your experience about it?
>
>Uri


Several points. The celeron cpu core is better than the P200/mmx core. The
P200 is the old P5 architecture.  The Celeron is based on the pentium pro/
pentium II cpu core.  Which is _much_ better.

The celeron has both a L1 _and_ a L2 cache (running at core cpu speed,
although the L2 is only 128kb).  The old P200 has a good L1 cache (same
as Celeron) the the L2 cache is external and much slower.

For comparison, I used to run crafty on a P233/mmx machine and found that to
be about 70% of the speed of my pentium pro 200.  The celeron is a good match
for the pentium-pro clock for clock.  450/500 celerons scream...



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