[Coco] What about the double speed upgrade?

Alex Evans alxevans at concentric.net
Sat Jan 6 13:04:58 EST 2007


On  5  Jan 2007, at 7:17 PM, Diego Barizo wrote:

> I might be wrong, but... Isn't that the same that PCs do?
> A 400 MHz CPU and the bus at 100 MHz...
> If so, does it have the same implications for any computer? 2 times  
> the
> CPU speed, same bus, just a 30% real speed increase?

It is similar, but not the same.  The chips you are talking about  
have a built in internal cache that runs closer to (at those speeds  
the same as) the internal clock speed, so you only get this effect  
when you have a cache miss.




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