> however, claim is that at least half of the z196 per processor improvement > over z10 was introduction of out-of-order execution, branch prediction, > speculative executive
Those features are important to systems performance, but I submit that most of the improvement was probably due to the increased clock speed (5.2 GHz vs 4.4) and the changes in cache structure (4 levels vs 3 levels). Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
