6 May
2010
6 May
'10
11:03 a.m.
On 5/5/2010 3:02 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I
still stand my my statement that the master clock rate is meaningless.
Laws of physics disagree with you for sufficiently high orders of magnitude.
Care to explain? I can't think of a single law of physics that prohibits
using as many clock cylces as I want for a particular operaiton. In which
case, an 8MHz RISC processor which takes 1 cycle for a given operation
could be a lot faster than a 1GHz processor what happens to take 256
cycles for the same operation.
-tony