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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by Someone on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:25PM (#23586976)
Single-threaded doesn’t imply IPC can’t go up or go above 1. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor.

I would think that and cache size are large differences between a P4 and the i7 running at about the same clock frequency.

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