Re: Incredible!

Subject: Re: Incredible!
From: John Norair (jnorair@Princeton.EDU)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 14:20:03 MDT

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Maybe Altivec has something to do with it.

On Wednesday, September 12, 2001, at 04:17 PM, Mac Man wrote:

> I just got through running an alpha of the modelling program I am
> working on, under both RedHat and YDL, and I don't understand it.
> Could someone who is technically minded, explain to me why this G4,
> Dual Processor 800 MHz, goes about 15 times faster then the Dual
> Processor Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz. Both machines have 1.5 Gigs of Memory.
> I'm a mathematician not a computer guru. And my math skills say that
> 1.8 GHz >> 0.8 GHz.
>
> Alex
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