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To: combjelly who wrote (71885)	2/19/2002 8:17:28 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

combjelly: I would guess 1) better branch prediction and 2) larger cache. Johan claimed his reference was neither to larger cache nor increase in FSB bandwidth. BPU enhancement is probably a very solid guess and is certainly mine as well. What the other change is&#133 well&#133 I hope it does turn out to be SSE2, but I don't consider it "minor" or "subtle" - and I consider it extremely unlikely (would be a major surprise, though). Peeking at Hammer, maybe some kind of "pre-decoding"? -fyo