Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016)
by flohofwoe on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:24AM
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I wonder how much performance we got out of the 1.6m scaling factor. I'd guess somewhere between 10k and 100k faster, but nowhere near a million times?
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Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016)
by rnentjes on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:47AM
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I would like to see that number as well, I actually expect it to be a lot more than a million.
Take 1000 times the clock rate, 4 cores, multiple instructions per clock instead of multiple clocks per instruction. Operations on 64 bits i.o 8 and the Z80 doesn't even have multiply or divide operators and would need to loop and add to do a multiplication/division. And then think about things like ARM SIMD instructions.