🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <36DDB3AB.378F5C87@igs.net> Paul DeMone <pdemone@igs.net> wrote:
>   Both of these figures are peak performance values which essentially
>   means you cannot achieve higher performance.  For real applications
>   you typically achieve a lot less.  If the Toshiba chip sustains 20%
>   and the Merced sustains 50% of these peak values on real customer
>   applications it will be impressive.

I'd be very surprised if the Toshiba chip didn't run well over 80% for
a significant amount of time and I'd expect it to hit its speed of light
"often enough"  when running its real customer applications.  Those might
not be your applications, and it might not do well on other applications,
but I'd bet Sony+Toshiba optimized it for the application they care about.

The attack of the killer micros is over - they won.  But, the fact that
killer micros took better advantage of certain technologies than did
"big iron" doesn't imply that killer micros are the best use of that
technology.  The killer micros are now prey.

-andy


-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
http://www.dejanews.com/       Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own