What makes Centrino so fast?

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:03:41PM -0800, Rob wrote:
> I forgot to add that the Athlon system  has 1Gig of Ram while the 
> Centrino has 512k.  Rob.
> 
> 
> Rob wrote:
> >I have my own benchmark program that I use for number crunching.
> >It uses a mixture of Python and Numeric Python.
> >
> >Athlon 2166Mhz as reported by OS:  2m38.7s
> >Intel Centrino Pentium 1700 Mhz:   2m17s
> >
> >Is it just compiler optimization at play?
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Rob

512k or 512MB ? ;-)

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