Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can't match Mhz/Ghz in a cisc to a risc architecture. It all depends in the type of applications that you're doing. Reduced Instruction Set Chips have less overhead in the chip architecture, but have to run the same operation over multiple times. Complex Intruction Set Chips have more instructions in their repertiore and therefore can run them fewer times to get the same result. For the most part you're talking an order of nanoseconds. The fact is the VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) (RISC and CICS) are nearly identical as to speed. What it really comes down to is how the developers have coded their bloatware. Not to mention memory and cacheing of micro-code/machine code. For an entire article on this check out http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/risc-cisc/rvc-1.html You're real question should be "Which platform will be able to execute my software in the quickest most accurate way" As you might know, you can get BSD based un*x on a Mac or PC.. You can get MacOS, Win9X/200X/XP or Linux/SolarisX86 any number of operating systems out there run on any number of hardware variants. - -Mark - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Simon Lamb Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:59 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Absolutely, totally off-topic Sorry but I need to know. What is the equivalent Intel Pentium 4 speed of the: Mac 800MHz PowerPC G4 Mac 933MHz PowerPC G4 Mac Dual 1GHz PowerPC G4 Or where can I look it up? Thanks. Simon - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html