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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 213.43+6.2%Dec 19 9:30 AM EST
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To: TechieGuy-alt who wrote (27031)1/31/2001 7:21:52 PM
From: jcholewaRead Replies (3) of 275872
 
> Well, the meat of the article was that a single 266 DDR 1.2GHz Athlon compiled the kernel in 4min 51secs
> and the dual system compiled it in 2 min 00 secs!, more than a 100% performance improvement.
> (Normally one expects somewhat < 100% performance improvement).

I should point out that the fact that the total cache of the system is now 768KB instead of 384KB could easily account for a greater than linear performance increase.

Nonetheless ... does anybody know how much a PIII increases in performance from 1-way to 2-way? Any links?

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-JC
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