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  • #46
    Originally posted by Kramerman


    will they have hyper threading on laptop processors anytime soon (im gonna by a laptop at some point)? and what is the 'way more' you speak of???
    Asher . . .

    you gave Kramerman something to masturbate over tonight.



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    • #47
      nah, a girl walked up to me and gave me a condom today... i think im gonna use it
      "I bet Ikarus eats his own spunk..."
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      • #48
        Originally posted by Kramerman
        nah, a girl walked up to me and gave me a condom today... i think im gonna use it
        SCORE!
        A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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        • #49
          Wow. That's a big hint....

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          • #50
            My gf caught me with someone else and insisted I buy a computer to make up for it.
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            • #51
              Originally posted by Kramerman
              will they have hyper threading on laptop processors anytime soon (im gonna by a laptop at some point)? and what is the 'way more' you speak of???
              You can get HT in laptops today, provided they use the regular Pentium 4 or Pentium 4-M.

              The Pentium M doesn't have it, but it's still a much better mobile chip (much faster and uses less power).

              The Pentium 5 comes with lots of advances, most of them are techie stuff but do translate into performance boosts.
            • The Level 2 cache (L2) doubles from 512KB to 1024KB.
            • The Level 1 cache (L1) doubles from 16KB to 32KB
            • Physical address register increases from 36-bits to 40-bits
            • The Integer register file increases from 128 x 32-bit to 256 x 64-bit (though the 64-bit aspect of it is useless until they enable x86-64 support next year)
            • The Floating Point register file increases from 128 x 128-bit to 256 x 128-bit
            • Load buffer increases from 48 entries to 96 entries
            • Store buffer increases from 24 entries to 48 entries
            • Adds SSE3 (includes special instructions to improve hyperthreading performance)
            • Is smaller and runs cooler than the Pentium 4
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            • #52
              Originally posted by skywalker
              Wow. That's a big hint....
              Yeah, condoms are great -- they make masturbatory cleanup much more efficient, and they prevent you from "misplacing" your seed. It's far less embarassing to have a girl give you a condom than to have her say "Hey, it looks like you've got some spooge on your ear..."
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              • #53
                I understand the 3rd and last ones. Care to explain the others?

                EDIT: in response to Asher

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                • #54
                  Originally posted by Kramerman
                  right.. windows switches back and forth between running programs really really quickly, so it is essentially running them at the same time, but really isnt. I beleive it is the switching back and forth that these new ones will not have to do, and therefore be more efficient, but that is just a guess.. asher?
                  The new ones still have to switch back and forth, unless you only run 2 processes/threads on your computer (impossible ).

                  The difference being, with HT it's much more efficient because it can run twice the number of threads/processes at once.

                  Future versions (in late 2004) will handle 4 threads.
                  "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                  Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                  • #55
                    Originally posted by loinburger

                    Yeah, condoms are great -- they make masturbatory cleanup much more efficient, and they prevent you from "misplacing" your seed. It's far less embarassing to have a girl give you a condom than to have her say "Hey, it looks like you've got some spooge on your ear..."
                    You know what -- I don't think there is any limit in the ways a thread can be thread-jacked.

                    From purchasing computers to sex.

                    wow
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                    • #56
                      On your ear???

                      On second thought, I don't want to know

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                      • #57
                        Originally posted by loinburger

                        Yeah, condoms are great -- they make masturbatory cleanup much more efficient, and they prevent you from "misplacing" your seed. It's far less embarassing to have a girl give you a condom than to have her say "Hey, it looks like you've got some spooge on your ear..."
                        aah... good old loins here to give me a reality check
                        "I bet Ikarus eats his own spunk..."
                        - BLACKENED from America's Army: Operations
                        Kramerman - Creator and Author of The Epic Tale of Navalon in the Civ III Stories Forum

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                        • #58
                          Originally posted by MrFun


                          You know what -- I don't think there is any limit in the ways a thread can be thread-jacked.

                          From purchasing computers to sex.

                          wow
                          i rarely see a thread get thru a second page before getting jacked. mine usually dont last till after a few posts
                          "I bet Ikarus eats his own spunk..."
                          - BLACKENED from America's Army: Operations
                          Kramerman - Creator and Author of The Epic Tale of Navalon in the Civ III Stories Forum

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                          • #59
                            Some explanations, then

                          • The Level 2 cache (L2) doubles from 512KB to 1024KB.
                          • The Level 1 cache (L1) doubles from 16KB to 32KB
                            • The caches are ultra-fast memory pools that sit, physically, on the processor chip. They're thousands of times faster than RAM, and millions of times faster than the harddrive. The L2 cache is the larger but slower than the L1 cache. The stuff the CPU uses most gets stored as close to the CPU as possible. So the most common stuff ends up in L1, then in L2, then in RAM, then on the HD. L1 is nearly instantanous, L2 slightly longer, and RAM is 96ns for the Pentium 4. HardDrives are usually in the 30ms range.

                          • The Integer register file increases from 128 x 32-bit to 256 x 64-bit (though the 64-bit aspect of it is useless until they enable x86-64 support next year)
                          • The Floating Point register file increases from 128 x 128-bit to 256 x 128-bit
                            • These serve two purposes: The number of registers has doubled, this will help HyperThreading performance substantially. The precision has also moved from 32-bit to 64-bit, because the Pentium 5 is actually capable of being a 64-bit processor: It's just disabled until 2004, when a new variation of the chip will be released. Much like how all Pentium 4s are capable of HyperThreading, but it was disabled until recently.

                          • Load buffer increases from 48 entries to 96 entries
                          • Store buffer increases from 24 entries to 48 entries
                            • These exist to help boost HyperThreading performance, again.

                          • Adds SSE3 (includes special instructions to improve hyperthreading performance)
                            • SSE instructions are "Streaming SIMD Extensions"
                            SIMD means Single Instruction, Multiple Data.
                            Simply put, instead of using four instructions and four values, it uses one instruction and four values. This is very helpful for 3D graphics, media encoding, etc. Anything that can easily be represented by a matrix. SSE3 adds 13 new instructions that allow developers to do things much faster.

                          • Is smaller and runs cooler than the Pentium 4
                            • The size of the transistors (the low-level components of the chip) shrink from 130nm to 90nm, with a new technology called "strained silicon". Essentially, the chip takes less power, is much smaller, allows more transistors to be added, and runs cooler.

                            Another thing I forgot to mention is that the Pentium 5 has reduced integer multiply latencies (lag time, how fast it can do it), too.
                            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                          • #60
                            There are two kinds of jacking - thread and off.
                            American by birth, smarter than the average tropical fruit by the grace of Me. -me
                            I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
                            Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
                            XGalaga.

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