On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:29:28AM -0500, Vann, Mark (CRTATL) wrote:
> Ahh, i would love to see a benchmark with this , ;-) I wonder if it would
> keep up with say a pentium 2 500?

I know the distributed.net folks work hard on writing tight ASM cores
for common platforms, with the C core as a second-best for less commonly
used CPUs. I'll bet there's no SH assembly core, so you could expect the
Pentium to have an unfair advantage.

For a fair, but purely theoretical, benchmark, you could of course use the
C cores for both, but even then you're benchmarking the combination of 
the CPU and the compiler's optimisation routines, which will be more mature
for the Pentium...

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