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On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 23:30, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
> But stay away from Xscale, it is like the P4: optimized for MHz, not for instructions per clock.

Which eventually does pay off (at 2.4GHz the PIV is finally beating
AMD). The problem with the Xscale right now is some of the errata
cripple the performance when running with an MMU enabled. Until they are
resolved the xscale isnt going to fly.