On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:18:02PM +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
> >
> > Just out of interest, what percentage of improvement will one notice with
> > SM81s over SM71s?
>
> well, it's what, somewhere around 15% more clock cycles, so you should see
> about that much speed increase.  in all honesty though?  not a tremendous
> amount, so not worth hurting yourself to try and get, but if you can get,
> not a bad deal.
>
> the SM81 with 2MB cache on the other hand, is a different story.  but then
> those aren't useable in a sparc10 anyway. :)

They aren't useable in SS20s either. :-(

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