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newfolder09
17y ago
So it wasn't clear to me initially which phase of cpu development you meant. I agree with your statement regarding cpu development in the 90s. Looking at the performance equation I gave earlier, the second portion has gone from several 10s
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newfolder09
17y ago
As a general rule of thumb Performance for a given program for any CPU is : frequency times Instructions completed/cycle times number of instructions . The number of instructions is sort of fixed based on your ISA (ie. whether the mach