On Jan 28, 2007, at 18:43 , tim Rowledge wrote:

> Assuming of course that the claims I've read of the Cell having a  
> 3.2GHz POWER core are correct.

Well, *I* read that it's not even remotely comparable to either a  
POWER or a PowerPC core, it just happens to use the same instruction  
set. It's stripped to the bare minimum, for example, it does not do  
out-of-order execution. Or, while a G5 can issue 8 instructions at a  
time, the Cell does only 2. I can't find a good reference right now,  
but a bit is mentioned here

	http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-2.ars

and here

	http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell1_v2.html

- Bert -