Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:26:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: dg@root.com Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF worldstone (etc.) Message-ID: <199809101926.VAA15764@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199809101515.IAA03269@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Sep 10, 98 08:15:01 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In reply to David Greenman who wrote: > >On the other hand the Xeon is only faster because of raw clockspeed (as > >expected, same arch as the p6) > > Actually, that is not true. The chipset in the Xeon machine from Intel > has an extremely fast memory subsystem (something like 2Gbytes/second), > and of course the CPU is PII technology, which has larger L1 and L2 caches > than the P6. I still see the PII/Xeon/todaysbuzzword as an MMX enhanced P6 with a fast clock rate. So basically it scales upwards with the frequency. This is also only possible because the memory system is faster, or it would die from memory starvation. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199809101926.VAA15764>