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- From: m93kma@sabik.tdb.uu.se (Kristofer Maad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Processors
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 11:40:33 GMT
- Organization: Uppsala University
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- rad (rad@teclink.net) wrote:
- : Until I see some better explanations for what I've seen, I'll believe the
- : poster on comp.sys.m68k who was posting from a Motorola site with the uP
- : division listed in his .sig. He quite plainly stated that the IU was based
- : off the BCLK and the FPU was based off the PCLK. This makes the fractional
- : timings for some FPU instructions more logical to me. I would like to know
- : how exactly integer and fraction cycle instructions can occur simultaneously
- : without effectively operating at the double clock frequency?
-
- As this clearly only applies to the FP-instructions, it doesn't really
- matter, does it? We all know that an '040 does FP about three times as
- fast as a 486DX on the same clock frequency, but the integer speeds
- are comparable. Now, if you compare an '040 with a 486DX2, with the
- same external frequency, you'll see that the 486DX2 wins in the
- integer department. And there are now DX4/100's available...
-
- So, let's pretend that the '040 is clock doubled. All this means is
- that the integer instructions are performed half the speed of the
- equivalent 486 instructions, as an '040@25 (that is 50 internally,
- then) would be about as fast as a non-clock-doubled 486DX/25. Feeling
- happier now?
-
- (YES, I was wrong to think that all instructions were performed in an
- integral number of external cycles, but correct if you only consider
- integer instructions...)
-
- /Kristofer
-
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