What makes Centrino so fast?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:31, 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?

Here's an interesting article on it ->
http://arstechnica.com/cpu/004/pentium-m/pentium-m-1.html

but in short.. better branch prediction, and micro-architecture improvments in 
general, and a slightly longer pipeline (for higher clocks vs a PIII)

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