What makes Centrino so fast?

[Rob]

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
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