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"Secondly, two technologies that Intel pulled from its rabbit's hat are intelligent prefetchers and Advanced Smart Cache. "
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I know conroe has been out for a while and this seems like a bit late for me to be discussing this but I've recently come to the realization of what I'm about to say...
Isn't having prefetching and having smart cache a bit unfair? Sure it's good to take advantage of repetitive tasks and speed things up a bit but doesn't that make apparent performance a bit unfair or unreal? It just seems like it's kindof cheating kind of like zip compression where it can just skip a bunch of bits because it knows it has to do the same thing again. This type of thing is also similar with SSE and other technologies like that, right?
Meh just thought I'd say that... Also btw, I also heard that conroe can be slower or about the same speed as AMD's processors, so what cases does that occur?
Also, is conroe much faster than the P4s when it comes to folding at home? I ask this because I assume but have no idea but I'd believe folding at home doesn't have any repetitive tasks, or it could be the complete opposite and it's entirely repetitive... dunno
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I know conroe has been out for a while and this seems like a bit late for me to be discussing this but I've recently come to the realization of what I'm about to say...
Isn't having prefetching and having smart cache a bit unfair? Sure it's good to take advantage of repetitive tasks and speed things up a bit but doesn't that make apparent performance a bit unfair or unreal? It just seems like it's kindof cheating kind of like zip compression where it can just skip a bunch of bits because it knows it has to do the same thing again. This type of thing is also similar with SSE and other technologies like that, right?
Meh just thought I'd say that... Also btw, I also heard that conroe can be slower or about the same speed as AMD's processors, so what cases does that occur?
Also, is conroe much faster than the P4s when it comes to folding at home? I ask this because I assume but have no idea but I'd believe folding at home doesn't have any repetitive tasks, or it could be the complete opposite and it's entirely repetitive... dunno