PPC is better better better!!!!

[iamaboringperson]

meerschaum wrote:
I remember a long time ago I posted a thread with the title 'PPC is bad bad bad!!!' or something close to it and in that thread a said my piece about how come I thought PPC sucked... it was expensive I said, it was slow I said, it was non-standerd, its ratio was way off for consumers... etc etc etc...

well like the idiot I am PPC970 has me eating my hat and I'm glad for it!... I really like the looks of the new mac's I intend (money willing) to get one and make it my primary workstation for what I do (graphics and web development) for a long time...

what are your reactions to PPC970?... I personally think that apple did tweak the benchmarks and I still dont care... its only marginal differences...the main thing is its CHEAPER, and more competative... its definitlu within reason...I dont know the price of the chip but anything good for PPC is good for Pegasos  and Amiga... so It's a good day for all of us I think...

not wanting to sound like an arrogant prick or somthing...

but... told you so!  :-P

[iamaboringperson]

HyperionMP

The 970 is still somewhat slower that the very fastest x86 CPU's from Intel and AMD, at least in integer performance.

its only the integer results that are slower... and then only slightly

there were some interesting benchmarks

and i really wonder what the cause of the slower integer rate is

technicly the ppc should kick ass in this area

[iamaboringperson]

jahc wrote:

It offers execution of 32 bit code without any significant speed penalty.

Cool!!!!!! That just made my day! I was wondering wether AmigaOS would be able to use this chip, now we know.

Prices for existing PPC chips will probably come down a lot as well, yeah?

jahc the PowerPC was always designed to eventually be 64 bit
all the 32 bit versions were designed with this in mind
basically the 32bit instructions are still included, and will work with 64 bit registers