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Subject: Re: C speed question.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:25:40 07/26/99

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On July 26, 1999 at 04:10:21, Terry Ripple wrote:

>On July 25, 1999 at 10:23:28, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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...
>--------
>Hi Bob,
>  In the case of the AMD K6-2, how would this compare to the celeron and pentium
>-pro clock for clock?
>--------
>Regards, Terry


The data I have seen puts them pretty equal cycle-for-cycle, although I am not
sure of the differences between the K6/3 and K6/2.  And I am not sure which was
used in the test I saw...



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