Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Prophet? No. Cybernetic? Not really.
But truly your ARE the king of the search engines.
And yes, I'd never realized how much of a role out of order execution and branch prediction played in modern CPUs until you quoted those figures.
I really had much higher expectations of the Cell BE's performance before that.
It also points to one of the reasons most PPCs have an inherent advantage over ARM CPUs.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"