Double-Whammy Look At The Pentium 4

SystemLogicNet writes: "We at SystemLogic.net have just taken a technical look at the Pentium 4 architecture. In the article we go over all the basics that all the other sites cover like the double pumped ALUs, iSSE2, the longer pipeline, etc, but in addition we have some discussion about how different program structurings have an impact upon the design, and performance of the Pentium 4. One of the major areas where this comes into play is how complex data structures interact with the underlying philosophy that the Pentium 4 is built upon -- extreme bandwidth. This Pentium 4 technical background can be read over here. At the same time, we've done a rigorous analysis, including benchmark description and discussion regarding the Pentium 4's performance, and this can be read over this way."

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Re:Sad state of affairs

[aussersterne]

1 out of every 10 times you try and click on something, or double click something, or open a file, whatever, it fails. Every 10th Word file fails.

Umm... This isn't a very good analogy. Imagine instead:

1. Every tenth word file fails when you double-click on it the first time.
   
2. But when you double-click again it opens fine.
   
3. And you are able to double click on the document icons at a rate of over 1,000,000,000 every second.
   

One Quick Question

[Kalrand]

Did you just cut and paste a press release onto the front page of Slashdot?

I sure hope you Slashdot isn't selling Front Page space to any little company that pays...