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- From: vulture@imperial.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: R4400 (was: Re: Multiprocessor Crimson?)
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- In article <C180v5.L6q@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi) writes:
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- - i know this is one of the questions which have no answer, or any answer,
- - because it's application-dependent, but *roughly*, what kind of improvement in
- - 64-bit floating point speed is expected from the R4400, with respect to the
- - R4000? +10%? +50%? +300%?
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- Expect a maximum speed-up of 50 % (for a 150 MHz R4400 vs a 100 MHz R4000)
- In some cases the bigger cache will give you more than that. That is for
- CP-bound processes.
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- If it is PMB (processor memory bandwidth) bound, expect the ratio between
- the memory access speeds, again with some bonus for bigger cache.
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- If bound by paging speed, you will see no improvement.
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- Most programs will be somewhere between the first two cases. Thus a 100/50
- MHz R4000 will take about 50% more time than a 150/75 MHz R4400 to run the
- same program in the same memory, if the program uses the processor effectively.
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- Thomas
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