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To: Petz who wrote (44945)	1/6/1999 12:29:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1571177

<All, an excellent article in Ace's Hardware on why the K6-3 is so much faster than the K6-2.> Thanks, Petz, but I've seen it already. Still, it's the thought that counts. By the way, there's a name for the thing that the web page was talking about, and it's "Flynn's Bottleneck." <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.> Here, I have my doubts. The K7 core is pretty well-fed with data already with its deep buffers and the oversized 128K L1 cache. The K7 designers definitely had Flynn's Bottleneck in mind when they devoted all that silicon to the deep buffers. Tenchusatsu