[rescue] Which is faster?

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Wed Feb 18 21:43:10 CST 2004


On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:35:32PM -0500, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
> My question is as follows (and I'd like to hear opinions here): Would dual 
> 360MHz CPUs be equivalent (or faster) than a single 450MHz CPU?  My gut feeling
> is "Absolutely yes", but I'd like to make sure I'm not smoking crack and 
> missing something.

I would expect dual 360s, for anything that makes even relatively decent
use of threading, to handily outpace a single 450.


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