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To: Maxwell who wrote (41567)	11/16/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) of 1572507

Maxwell, It is a 5 year old architecture. The branch prediction and decoders of P6 are ancient. You are trying to compare 1993 technology to 1999 technology. All modern microprocessors are starved for data running real world apps. Until dram latencies dramatically improve, the value of one architecture vs. another is limited to the entertainment of CPU architects. Soon we will be running CPU's with a cycle time of 1ns, in systems with average dram latencies exceeding 50ns. This imbalance turns all CPU architects into little more than academics. Unless anyone really cares about synthetic benchmarks which fit in the L1. Scumbria

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