From: Robert Dewar (dewar_at_GNAT.CS.NYU.EDU)
Date: Wed May 10 1995 - 12:16:49 EDT
the power PC is MUCH faster than the PEntium for floating-point. The
Pentium performance on FPT is, for the first time in an Intel chip, within
hailing range of reasonable RISC performance, but still not great!
FOr integer arithmetic, to a first degree of approximation, these
chips are clock speed for clock speed comparable. The disastrous
lack of registers on the Pentium can make quite a difference in
some cases, even in integer calculatoins, however.
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