[A83] Re: Faster Multiplication

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[A83] Re: Faster Multiplication


I know Intel can make faster processors than they are.  I recently
purchased a 900Mhz PIII, and through BIOS settings currently have it
running at 945MHz.  I would go higher, but I don't want it to get too
hot.  The overclocking option has been available since at least the 486.
Intel made it so that you can't overclock the Celeron, though.  It has an
integrated clock...

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Linus Akesson wrote:

> 
> In accordance with the prophecy, Thomas J. Hruska uttered:
> 
> > At 04:33 PM 5/30/01 EDT, you wrote:
> > >never even heard or seen anything like this before....shesh....
> > 
> > When you get into programming groups like these, you see stuff like this.
> > The reason is that the programmers here count clock cycles every time that
> > they write code.
> 
> Hmm, no I don't. =) I do know that an O(log n) multiplication routine is better
> than an O(n) one, but I don't count clock cycles. I'm sure some programmers do,
> though.
> 
> > You've played some of the assembler games for the 83, I'm
> > sure and have noticed that they are fast.  Well, they are fast because the
> > people here are not sloppy coders.  Today's Windows games seem about as
> > fast as the games on your 83...that's because of something known as bloat.
> > The programmers here scrape for every byte they can save and every clock
> > cycle they can save.  Thus, you even have 3D games on that 6 mHz processor
> > in your 83!!!  (They don't run terribly fast (7-9 fps?), but it does
> > demonstrate that today's 3D games could be smoother, faster, and better
> > looking).
> 
> There's money involved in that. Intel pays major (and minor?) software companies
> to make their games slow, and include unnecessary delay routines into them. This
> way, people figure they need a faster processor, and so they buy one from Intel.
> 
> It is also worth noting that Intel probably know how to make faster processors
> than they're currently selling. (This is just speculative, mind you.) The guy
> who gave us Moore's Law (computing power doubles every 18 months) was the
> founder of Intel, and naturally they try to stick to his prophecy as exactly as
> possible.
> 
> Linus
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> Syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon.
>                                    -- Alan Perlis
> 
> 
>
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