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Do you have a source for any of the things you said?
by btian 6y ago
Do you have a source for any of the things you said?
- AdrianB1 6y agoAnecdotal: back then when SETI@home was a thing, I was running it on some servers; a 700 MHz Xeon was a lot faster (>50%, IIRC) than a 933 MHz Pentium 3, Xeon had a lot lower frequency and slower bus (100 vs 133MHz), but the cache was 4 times larger and probably the dataset or most of it was running in cache.
- tolien 6y agoThe same happened with the mobile Pentium-M with 1 (Banias) and 2MB (Dothan) cache - you could get the whole lot in cache and it just flew, despite the (relatively) low clock speed. There were people building farms of machines with bare boards on Ikea shelving.