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we're on the same page.
what's interesting, and I only recently found this out, I guess the PowerPC floating point is more precise and the chip wastes fewer cycles with bad prediction. Intel just gets by on brute force.... I mean, they *are* an american company after all
what's interesting, and I only recently found this out, I guess the PowerPC floating point is more precise and the chip wastes fewer cycles with bad prediction. Intel just gets by on brute force.... I mean, they *are* an american company after all
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Originally Posted by wicky,Jan 27 2006, 04:53 PM
we're on the same page.
what's interesting, and I only recently found this out, I guess the PowerPC floating point is more precise and the chip wastes fewer cycles with bad prediction. Intel just gets by on brute force.... I mean, they *are* an american company after all
what's interesting, and I only recently found this out, I guess the PowerPC floating point is more precise and the chip wastes fewer cycles with bad prediction. Intel just gets by on brute force.... I mean, they *are* an american company after all
Herein lies Apple's interesting marketing rub....for 10 years they have been trying to convince us that forget clock speeds the PPC GX is faster than x86 
and now 
"oh your new Macintel computer is 2X times faster than a G5 
Hmmmmprh! 