Would I dare ask what sort of processing you've seen this happen on?
P4s may easily outperform G4s in situations where the P4 doesn't suffer from penalties due to guessing the wrong instructions that will be coming up next.
Every time the P4 guesses wrong, it has to flush the pipieline, which makees it simply stall for 20 pipeline stages! This happens ALL the time in day to day processing.
Also, the P4 is not able to do different kinds of processing in between, like integer, floating and vector processing. The P4 has to flush the pipieline when it needs to process different kinds of instructions. More stalling!
In everyday processing the P4s AND Atholn XPs do a LOT of this pipeline flushing, resulting in a lot of dead stalls. Have you ever felt that Windows isn't operating as smooth as you had hoped?:)
Using benchmarks pipieline flushing can be avoided, resulting in very good benchmark results. Benchmark results are not very much usefull in the real life, though...
Would I dare ask what sort of processing you've seen this happen on?
P4s may easily outperform G4s in situations where the P4 doesn't suffer from penalties due to guessing the wrong instructions that will be coming up next.
Every time the P4 guesses wrong, it has to flush the pipieline, which makees it simply stall for 20 pipeline stages! This happens ALL the time in day to day processing.
Also, the P4 is not able to do different kinds of processing in between, like integer, floating and vector processing. The P4 has to flush the pipieline when it needs to process different kinds of instructions. More stalling!
In everyday processing the P4s AND Atholn XPs do a LOT of this pipeline flushing, resulting in a lot of dead stalls. Have you ever felt that Windows isn't operating as smooth as you had hoped?:)
Using benchmarks pipieline flushing can be avoided, resulting in very good benchmark results. Benchmark results are not very much usefull in the real life, though...
I wonder what you'll tell us when Intel releases the Itanium at similar frequencies as the PowerPCs...
You know, Itanium has fewer pipeline stages and it is 64 bit, much like the PowerPCs. The Itanium will beat the crap out of todays P4s, at lower frequencies.
But you still belive that 64 bit, 7 pipeline stages (P4 has 20) G4s, are outperformed by crappy P4s and AthlonXPs?
The video, photo, dvd and music software that comes with the Macs are far far better than what comes with Win XP. I'm writing this on WinXP, and this kind of software on Win XP simply sucks. It's lame software.
And please don't say that 1 GB/s Ethernet and 64 bits PCI etc. doesn't matter because you wouldn't use it. Let's try and stay a little bit serious. This was a comparison.
And just for the record, I would most certainly make use of 1 GB/s Ethernet...
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Would I dare ask what sort of processing you've seen this happen on?
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P4s may easily outperform G4s in situations where the P4 doesn't suffer from penalties due to guessing the wrong instructions that will be coming up next.
Every time the P4 guesses wrong, it has to flush the pipieline, which makees it simply stall for 20 pipeline stages! This happens ALL the time in day to day processing.
Also, the P4 is not able to do different kinds of processing in between, like integer, floating and vector processing. The P4 has to flush the pipieline when it needs to process different kinds of instructions. More stalling!
In everyday processing the P4s AND Atholn XPs do a LOT of this pipeline flushing, resulting in a lot of dead stalls. Have you ever felt that Windows isn't operating as smooth as you had hoped?
Using benchmarks pipieline flushing can be avoided, resulting in very good benchmark results. Benchmark results are not very much usefull in the real life, though...
Would I dare ask what sort of processing you've seen this happen on?
:)
P4s may easily outperform G4s in situations where the P4 doesn't suffer from penalties due to guessing the wrong instructions that will be coming up next.
Every time the P4 guesses wrong, it has to flush the pipieline, which makees it simply stall for 20 pipeline stages! This happens ALL the time in day to day processing.
Also, the P4 is not able to do different kinds of processing in between, like integer, floating and vector processing. The P4 has to flush the pipieline when it needs to process different kinds of instructions. More stalling!
In everyday processing the P4s AND Atholn XPs do a LOT of this pipeline flushing, resulting in a lot of dead stalls. Have you ever felt that Windows isn't operating as smooth as you had hoped?
Using benchmarks pipieline flushing can be avoided, resulting in very good benchmark results. Benchmark results are not very much usefull in the real life, though...
I wonder what you'll tell us when Intel releases the Itanium at similar frequencies as the PowerPCs...
You know, Itanium has fewer pipeline stages and it is 64 bit, much like the PowerPCs. The Itanium will beat the crap out of todays P4s, at lower frequencies.
But you still belive that 64 bit, 7 pipeline stages (P4 has 20) G4s, are outperformed by crappy P4s and AthlonXPs?
Do you know what you're talking about?
Come on! You seem to know nothing about Macs.
The video, photo, dvd and music software that comes with the Macs are far far better than what comes with Win XP. I'm writing this on WinXP, and this kind of software on Win XP simply sucks. It's lame software.
And please don't say that 1 GB/s Ethernet and 64 bits PCI etc. doesn't matter because you wouldn't use it. Let's try and stay a little bit serious. This was a comparison.
And just for the record, I would most certainly make use of 1 GB/s Ethernet...
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