Comment Re:Should compete with Pentium 4. Even at 1.8GHz. (Score 2, Interesting) 421
i'd like to see the source of your "P4 executes 1 instruction per cycle" or perhaps clarify on what you mean by "executes"...
because even after a basic architecture course in college your would realize that all modern processors have multiple functional units which allow for much more than a single or even 3 instructions to be on the fly in a processor. I took my graduate architecture course from someone who was on the design team of the P4 and he eluded to us that the P4 has something like 130ish instructions on the fly at any given time, not just 1...
dave
because even after a basic architecture course in college your would realize that all modern processors have multiple functional units which allow for much more than a single or even 3 instructions to be on the fly in a processor. I took my graduate architecture course from someone who was on the design team of the P4 and he eluded to us that the P4 has something like 130ish instructions on the fly at any given time, not just 1...
dave
