Re: OT Dual core CPUs versus faster single core CPUs?

In article <wRFUj.3$Ps4.0@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, dennis@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
Martin Brown wrote:


I am truly amazed in the current generation of P4 chips that the
register colouring and speculative execution doesn't cause more problems.

Why? This is known technology since the 1970's mainframes.

As are the verification techniques.

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Keith
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