We've heard about a ~650MHz TM chip being comparable to a 500MHz PIII. But the real question is, what fraction of the CPU cycles are running the morpher? That is a very interesting question. Especially when comparing different morpher's etc. A first guess would could be PIII @500 is ~700 MIPS, TM gets about 2 x86 Ins/cyc so 350 MHz are spent on application code and ~300 MHz on code morpher. I'm damm impressed with a near or better than 1-1 ratio!
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We've heard about a ~650MHz TM chip being comparable to a 500MHz PIII. But the real question is, what fraction of the CPU cycles are running the morpher? That is a very interesting question. Especially when comparing different morpher's etc. A first guess would could be PIII @500 is ~700 MIPS, TM gets about 2 x86 Ins/cyc so 350 MHz are spent on application code and ~300 MHz on code morpher. I'm damm impressed with a near or better than 1-1 ratio!