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To: Ali Chen who wrote (86268)	7/28/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ali, You and Ten are both correct. A certain percentage of the time a computer spends doing a task is processing time, and a certain percentage is time spent waiting for memory/IO. Speeding up either of these decreases the total time required to complete the task. Because of the mismatch between memory speeds and CPU speeds, system benchmark improvements no longer scale well with MHz, unless they are associated with improvements in the memory subsystem. Intel and AMD have both recognized this and are putting much larger caches on their high end CPU's. Scumbria

To: Ali Chen who wrote (86268)	7/28/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Ali, we've been through this debate before, and I'm not surprised that you replied to my original message. Let me just say that application performance is dependent on CPU speed because my theories are correct. I'll let it stand there without further explanation. <Maybe this is why this "ridiculous" Athlon lags in performance behind P-III/Xeon? Or it isn't?> I think Athlon's performance is remarkable despite the limitations of the memory bottleneck. I've already said before that once Athlon systems start supporting DRDRAM or DDR SDRAM, Athlon's 200 MHz bus will take better advantage of the memory bandwidth compared to Coppermine's 133 MHz bus. As a so-called "Intel-a-bee," this concerns me somewhat. Tenchusatsu