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To: Shankar Kumar who wrote (80220)	4/28/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) of 186894

RE:"Perhaps some one could enlighten me as to how two processors can differ by a wide margin in one type of arithmetic while, presumably, their performance is comparable in other types of computations'... I'm not an expert but perhaps because I'm not I can reduce this to a low common denoninator for you. Actually the K6 and Pentium FPUs are very close. Some say that the K6 FPU is actually faster. The big difference is that the Pentium FPU is "pipelined". This apparently is like a pre-amplifier that makes sure that there are always floating point calculations are lined up, ready to enter the "pipe". This more effiecient feeding of the pipe greatly improves the FPU output. The K6s are not pipelined, the K7 will be. It will also have 3 floating point units. A real mutha~. Jim Jim

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