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To: Scumbria who wrote (96414)3/2/2000 8:10:00 PM
From: Epinephrine  Respond to of 1572191
 
RE: <Actually not. I'm pretty sure that the old PII pipeline was shorter, and that they must have lengthened it. I have no confirmation of this however.>

Scumbria,

Well in any event thank you for the information and clarification. :)

Thanks,

Epinephrine



To: Scumbria who wrote (96414)3/3/2000 12:50:00 AM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572191
 
Re: I'm pretty sure that the old PII pipeline was shorter, and that they must have lengthened it...

Pentium 5 stage, Pentium II, 12 stage.

fly.hiwaay.net

I know such a string of instructions would never happen in a real program, but just to play devil's advocate, wouldn't a 1 GHZ Willamette with a 20 stage pipeline execute serially dependant instructions at a slower rate than a non-pipelined 66MHZ processor?

Dan


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