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To: Joe NYC who wrote (196980)5/15/2006 10:58:55 PM
From: dougSF30Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Woodcrest will likely lead in some apps and trail in others, once memory accesses (cache misses) predominate.

Latency to main memory is slightly longer for Woodcrest (in the random case-- for patterned accesses, prefetching kicks in for both) BUT the memory disambiguation helps there, basically by starting some memory requests before the K8 would, thus hiding some/all of the extra latency.