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http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm#02282001
The above is off the wall and long-winded, but worth a
look if you are looking at P4's.
BW
>From: Ian MacAuslan <imacauslan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: imacauslan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: Rundy Bradley <rundy@xxxxxxxxxx>, omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: P4 1.7Ghz versus P3 1.0Ghz Xeon?
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:22:24 -0400
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>Rundy,
>This was actually the question in my original post. Intel's web site may
>have some performance comparisons bewtween P3 and P4...I suspect that for
>optimizations, the XEON may be faster--though keep in mind the XEON is
>available in L2 cache sizes from 256k to 2 MB...the 2 MB version is
>probably obscenely expensiove, though may be worth it as a tradeing
>station for optimizations. The whoile point here well be to keep the
>entire symbol's data set in that L2 cache--that way the optimizations
>fly...Once the system has to go beyond the L2 cache to fetch the symbol's
>data, performance suffers (in other words, that P-4 1.7 GHz chip would
>spend much of its time waiting for data to crunch).
>
>Rundy Bradley wrote:
>
> > Hi Ian,
> >
> > For doing very lengthy optimizations, which computer would be faster?
> > a workstation with a Pentium4, 1.7Ghz processor, or
> > a workstation with a Pentium3 Xeon 1.0 Ghz processor?
> >
> > Rundy
>
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>
>imacauslan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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