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Subject: Re: Pentium 3 vs. Pentium with Xeon

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:29:47 08/05/99

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On August 05, 1999 at 08:50:13, Randy Schmidt wrote:

>I am curious if there are opinions on whether a program would
>benefit by using the Xeon processor and under what circumstances.

The xeon is somewhat faster.  A PIII runs the L2 cache at core cpu speed/2,
while the xeon runs the L2 cache at core cpu speed.  IE the L2 cache is 2x
faster on the xeon.  That is the only difference, but it is definitely a
measurable difference...

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