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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44940)	1/5/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571172

All, an excellent article in Ace's Hardware on why the K6-3 is so much faster than the K6-2. aceshardware.com The K6 execution units are a bit too powerful for the K6 decoders. The K6 decoders are the bottleneck in the K6-architecture. So, by making sure that those decoders are always well fed by fast and large L1-L2-L3 caches, performance is maximized. This is the main reason why the K6-3 is such an excellent performer and benefits more from its full speed L2 cache then any PII core. BTW, I believe that the K7 core execution units are also somewhat "overpowered" so that, when the 0.18µ version with full speed L2 arrives, a huge improvement will again occur. Petz