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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44329)12/29/1998 8:58:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1584441
 
Ten,

Based on this, what will make the K7 so much faster than the P6 SPEC-wise?

SPEC responds favorably to wide superscalar architectures. That is why architects love to quote SPEC numbers. The problem is that very few other applications behave similarly.

K7 runs at a high clock speed, has excellent FPUs, and a lot integer execution units. It should perform very well on iSPEC and fSPEC.

Scumbria