That's my working theory too.   John McIntosh has offered to help me  
check out various VM issues but I've dropped the ball on my end.  I  
hope to free up some time to follow up this week.

Jerry Bell






On Jan 28, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> 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 -
>
>
>