From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HCY5u-0000GL-Cq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:19:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l119HtKd001910; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:17:55 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l119De23029588 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:13:41 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E4183464 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:20:23 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id v2EQ9Gy9rcXD for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:20:13 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6909683454 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:20:13 +0200 (SAST) Received: from deborah.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:15:23 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:10:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <3D60AF2712C16D42A38076E52FD6E3D23F0D70@ukmcrdembx01.rd.astrazeneca.net> In-Reply-To: <3D60AF2712C16D42A38076E52FD6E3D23F0D70@ukmcrdembx01.rd.astrazeneca.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702011110.40934.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2007 09:15:23.0859 (UTC) FILETIME=[810F9A30:01C745E1] X-Archives-Salt: 5f939995-b2e3-44cd-92e0-f6959fee5311 X-Archives-Hash: 54885e7b7f1378f94d1cad02acbd74ee On Thursday 01 February 2007, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > > Also Pentium-M has a lower latency L2 cache than P-4. With respect > > to pipeline lengths I was curious to see what they actually > > were: P-4 has > > 20 stages, P-M has.. err... < 20 stages (Intel won't say exactly!). > > > > I found this an interesting read for those of you interested in > > this: > > > > http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2342&p=1 > > > > Cheers > > > > Mark > > At the risk of pulling this topic a little more off-topic - the P-M > vs P-4 is an interesting case of a Pentium 3 chipset with a die > shrink outperforming a P-4. > > The Intel Core (2) Solo/Duo CPUs are based on the Pentium M as well. > Netburst is pretty much dead afaik. Thanks for everyone's replies. I now know, 6 months later, exactly what cpu I have :-) I've been finding over the last 10 years or so that if I don't keep up with new cpu developments, it takes ages to get familiar with the terminology and current products again. I think it's called "the price of rapid technology advances" alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list