Re: Emulator, Inc

["Bill Garber" <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
20031013040830.15237.00000117@mb-m26.aol.com">news:20031013040830.15237.00000117@mb-m26.aol.com...
> Sheldon Simms wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:17:14 -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
> >
> >> "Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
> >>>     I know that Pentium 4 has some problems, but I stay on Xeon
Pentium
> >III
> >>> until Pentium 4 will be fixed.
> >>
> >> What problems are these?
> >
> >Cycle for cycle, It executes code a lot more slowly than a Pentium III,
> >Athlon, or Athlon 64. That's all.
> >
> >It's obvious that the Pentium 4 is microarchitecturally cripped with
> >respect to these other processors when you look at the benchmarks and
> >see that a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition running at 3.6 Ghz with 2580kb
> >of onboard cache is essentially the same speed as an Athlon 64 FX-51
> >processor running at 2.2Ghz with 1088k onboard cache.
> >
> >All that, however, it hardly matters since the Pentium 4 is capable
> >of being run at much higher core frequencies, which makes up for the
> >cycle for cycle disadvantage.
>
> In any processor implementation, there is a tradeoff between the
> amount of work done in one clock cycle versus the time between
> cycles.  Less work per cycle makes for faster clock speed,
> more work, slower clock speed--and both designs may have
> similar total time to accomplish a task requiring many instructions.
>
> This tradeoff was characterized in the mid-90s in Microprocessor
> Report as the "Brainiacs" (lots of logic per cycle, but slower clocks)
> and the "Speed Demons" (little logic per cycle, but fast clocks).
>
> Which approach is superior in net cost-performance is a dynamic
> function of the state of semiconductor technology and microprocessor
> design, but in the _marketplace_, higher clock speed has always
> been an apparent advantage (whether it delivers the goods or not).

Hey, watch all that "clock cycle talk", you'll get Bryan Parkoff
started up again. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

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