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Re: specmarks

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From: Jeff d'Arcy
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 15:32
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swarren@eugene.uucp (Steve Warren):
> Did you really use clock frequency?  Or did you use bus cycles, which makes
> much more sense?  For example, 680x0 arch. uses four clock cycles per
> memory access.  So you need to divide the clock freq. by four to get
> comparable numbers.  Etc.

This is a particularly important point when comparing RISC vs. CISC.  One of
the major goals of CISC is to allow higher clock frequencies by simplifying
the design, but memory access time is another matter.

Jeff d'Arcy     OS/Network Software Engineer     jdarcy@encore.com
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