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to: Tony Ingenoso
from: Geo
date: 2005-05-03 22:55:24
subject: Re: This is not an Anti-OSS Flame

From: "Geo" 

"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
news:427701a9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> ~30% faster on the benchmarks I ran against a 386SX.  The 16 bit
> bus CPU's are VERY memory constrained.  Almost anything you
> can do to minimize the amount of code they're fetching is a win.

Ok, so an 386sx electronic picture frame might benefit from it but what
about the prescott P4 16kb L1 cache netburst 31 stage pipeline extreme
edition? Or even a dual core Pentium D? It just seems to me there is so
much going on in those chips you can't just automatically assume a change
like that is going to have much of an effect at all.

Geo.

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