Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Pentium II Math Bug | Date | Tue, 13 May 1997 04:22:41 -0400 | From | Dan Merillat <> |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk writes: > quoting someone else: > > > - and don't go see the page about comparison between Pentium-II and K6 > > (and others) because the guy has sufficiently little knowledge in > processor > to think that processors have to be compared at similar > frequencies,
What, asking that a PPro 200 not be compared with a P166? He was specifically talking about processers of the _SAME FAMILY_
So yes, comparing a P100 with a 486/100 is valid. It shows the P100 is faster. Comparing the MMX 166 with a P100 to show the "new" pentium is faster is NOT valid.
Comparing CISC chips to RISC chips is always going to be diffuclt.
> Well you can thank that paticular very good chip engineer for the fact > Linux has the undocumented 4Mbyte page mode and the vm86 extensions that > Intel put in Appendix H, as well as some of the bug info Intel tried to > leak quietly out of the door.
Tell me about it.. that's a great site. Good information for subtle code tricks, as well.
- --Dan
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