From: Adam 

Tony Ingenoso wrote:

> Ever increasing core speeds have been a (relatively) losing proposition for
> a while now.  A CPU idling 2X/3X as fast as the previous generation waiting
> on its memory system is still just idling.
>
> The only way to keep those cores busy is with increases in L1 and L2....or
> to have programmers suddenly recognize the value of actually tuning code
> (not likely).
>
> AMD and Centaur recognized this years ago when they put 64K L1's in their
> chips.  Going the increased L1 route is a LOT simpler than trying to make
> some voodoo magic core. All the nonsense Intel has been doing lately with
> HT, massively multi-stage pipes, reordering, etc makes for nice IEEE/ACM
> papers, but plonking 128-256K of L1 on the chip would trump every bit of it
> given the state of software development today.
>

Yup. I'm waiting for CPU'es to go the way of VidCards/GPU'es

Adam


> "Adam"  wrote in message
> news:42a42bf9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>I like the Dual core Pent M'es & I think that the 3 ghz barrier is going
>>to stick for a while (i.e. it's going to be some time before the 4,5,6
>>etc ghz commodity cpu'es.)
>
>

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