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Analysis: x86 Vs PPC

Posted by timothy on from the stone-age-to-present dept.

Gentu writes "Nicholas Blachford (engineer of the PPC-based PEGASOS Platform) wrote a long and detailed article, comparing the PPC and the x86 architectures on a number of levels: performance, Vector processing and Power Consumption differences, architectural differences, RISC Vs CISC and more. The article is up-to-date and so it takes the G5 into account too."

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  1. Re:Truly suprising colnclusion, OR NOT! by Sentry21 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nicholas Blachford (engineer of the PPC-based PEGASOS Platform) says that the PPC is better than x86.

    What an unbiased opinion. Maybe we should really hear the other side too. I like the article for the wealth of info, and we all know the shortcomings of the x86 platform, but the conclusion seems to be biased.

    While I of course agree that the result isn't surprising, I think people are getting the cause-effect thing backwards. I don't think he found that PPC is better because he uses it, I think he uses it because he found it better.

    Of course, I could be biased...

    --Dan