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* Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
  @ 2007-02-01  9:10 99% ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2007-02-01  9:10 UTC (permalink / raw
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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


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