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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 19:27:21 +0100
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- mberg@datashopper.dk (Michael Berg) writes:
-
- > SS> A 133mhz pentium is near 2 time slower then a 133mhz 604.
-
- >If the 604 is a RISC processor, then I am sure glad I don't have a 604 in
- >my machine. What a drag!
-
- You do not understand. "Slower" means "slower" and not "lower numbers
- in a MIPS test".
-
- >(For the slower readers -- RISC means Reduced Instruction Set, which in
- >turn means the processor has to execute many more instructions than a CISC
- >architecture to achieve the same thing. I don't recall the typical
- >RISC/CISC factor, but it's certainly more than 2).
-
- You recall badly. The factor is usually 1.2-1.5. There are exceptions
- where a CISC instruction is replaced with many RISC instructions but
- these CISC instructions are slow and if you compare clock cycles instead
- of instruction counts the factor is again in the 1-2 range.
-
- Anyway. Pentium and PPC604 don't differ by a factor of 2 in speed. From
- what I have seen the PPC is faster for floating point and often but not
- always faster for integer. The difference has always been less than 30%.
-
-
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- Michael van Elst
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