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Salutations,

Not being a real techy I was pondering this question last night and wondering
why I couldn't come up with an answer.

An Arm2 runs at 8Mhz and has approx "mippage" of 4
An Arm3 runs at 26Mhz and has approx "mippage" of 13

Rumour has it that the next ArmX chip runs at 50Mhz and has approx mippage of
28

Now then, what I don't understand is the Arm3 has a 4k cache which helps to 
speed things up, right?
The Arm3 (most common ones) are approx 3 times faster than an Arm2 - is this 
because they are clocked 3 times faster?

If so, where does the cache help?

Taking this argument to the next ArmX at 50Mhz - it runs approx twice as fast
as the Arm3 (again clock speed is "doubled") so shouldn't this be faster still
due to improvements on the design off the chip?


Someone, please explain this to me


Confused



Jayce

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