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Andy Brown (Andy.Brown@nexor.co.uk)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:27:51 +0000
You wrote:
> I assume that a hand optimized ASM implementation for AMD K6 will
> run faster than a similar P-II implementation. The reason? Simply
> because the K6 is more efficient in Operations/Clock ... specially
> working with integers where the lack of the L2 is not relevant.
Only if you can keep everything in registers. The 512K clk/2 L2 cache
on a PII will easily trounce a K6 if you have to go out to memory a
lot. The PPro is even better at this, and the K6-3 will beat them all
early next year.
Regards,
- Andy
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:37