In article <20000502213728.18549.00001046@ng-fo1.aol.com>, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
greg@apple2.com wrote:supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
At a certain point, clock speed would make up for any architecture advantages. I think the 1Ghz Athlon has reached this point.
YMt architecture disadvantages, right?
The G4 has an advanced architecture and that is an advantage. It can surpass the performance of a much higher clocked Pentium III or Athlon for certain software. But at a certain point, these advantages can be eclipsed if the competing processor has a much higher clock speed.
Ah, I see now. You meant architecture advantages _of the competition_. Basically that efficiency of design will fall if the competition can put more brute force beind their design that the efficient design can't also apply. I thought "would make up for" was an internal reference of the same processor, and wondered why speed would need to make up for an advantage (it would make up for a disadvantage in the same processor).
I would have said "would effectively counter" in that case. But anyway, thanks for the clarification. :-)
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