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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (53597)9/1/2001 11:10:55 PM
From: combjellyRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
"Combjelly made it sound like the entire P4 processor actually slowed down at times. It doesn't."

It was my understanding that the P4 ran at an effective clock rate of 50% when it had to hit the instruction decoder. The source was an Intel whitepaper on the P4 which gave that strong impression. So far the only thing I have found states that the instruction decoder adds 8 stages to the pipeline, not quite the same thing. Still looking though...


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