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Re: [microsound] computers and DSP

To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [microsound] computers and DSP
From: Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:25:22 -0500

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:33:51 -0800
ben nevile <bbn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> However, 
> the motorola chips in the Mac benefit from a greater emphasis on 
> pipelining/parallel execution, which means they can compute more 
> processes simultaneously.

Actually, there's one more important factor.  Motorola chips are RISC (reduced instruction set) type, which means that they perform less instructions for a given calculation.

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Michal Seta
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