Re: Speed of P5

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From: Iain McVey
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:25

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In article <BtCDDv.MG0@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> jwreilly@mipos2.UUCP (Jeffrey Reilly) writes:
>"Architect Dror Avnon claimed two to five times 486 FPU performance on unmassaged
>codes and up to ten times 486 performance for vectorized codes."
>
>I believe unmassaged means not recompiled.

vectorized?  I thought the p5 was superscalar.

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