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- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 96 19:56:30 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
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- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 27 Jan 96 Michael Berg wrote to All:
-
- SS>> A 133mhz pentium is near 2 time slower then a 133mhz 604.
-
- MB> If the 604 is a RISC processor, then I am sure glad I don't have a 604
- MB> in my machine. What a drag!
-
- Is it? Maybe he meant 2 times faster in real-life, I didn't see him mention he
- was talking about MIPS (would be useless now wouldn't it?)
-
- MB> (For the slower readers -- RISC means Reduced Instruction Set, which in
- MB> turn means the processor has to execute many more instructions than a
- MB> CISC architecture to achieve the same thing. I don't recall the typical
- MB> RISC/CISC factor, but it's certainly more than 2).
-
- It certainly is not. The PPC604 can do more instructions per cycle than the
- Pentium can, if I remember correctly it can start/finish 5 instructions per
- cycle, while the Pentium can only do 2/cycle.
-
- I think that the number of instructions that RISC need to do an operation is
- not as much larger as some people think. The PPC can do a
- move/add/sub/mul/div/shift in one instruction too. Just think what percentage
- of 680x0 code really consists of these type of operations (with only
- registers). Of course the 680x0 has some cool addressing modes which allow it
- do to addition/substraction with memory as source or destination, a RISC can't
- do that directly usually. But as memory operations are generally so darn slow
- the PPC can easily do a couple of 'extra' instructions WHILE it is
- loading/writing from/to memory. Even if what you say is true and RISC do take
- more than twice the number of instructions vs a CISC then that still doesn't
- tell you anything about the speed.
-
- MIPS/MHz/RISC or CISC are all meaningless when comparing different
- processor-families.
-
- Grtz John
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