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Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?
- Subject: Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?
- From: "G.T." <getnews1@dslextreme.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:43:20 -0700
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"Tim Cutts" <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <1gxykbw.1h7o2pe1jygz5cN%neillmassello@earthlink.net>,
> Neill Massello <neillmassello@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> one reason for Apple's
> >> switch, which Jobs alluded to, is that x86's integer performance is
> >> blistering (in both Intel and AMD's processors). Way faster than
> >> anything else,
> >
> >I noticed that the power versus performance bar chart Jobs showed during
> >the keynote was for integer operations.
> >
>
> Absolutely. Integer performance is all that matters for the vast
> majority of desktop consumer applications (games might be an exception,
> these days).
>
Aren't sound and video exceptions, too?
Greg