Re: brief olpc call notes

From: Ivan Krstić <krstic_at_solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu Dec 07 2006 - 09:24:08 CET

Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> From what I have gathered from JG's presentation at Guadec, this is not
> so much due to the HW, but because the HW is being throttled rather
> significantly to reduce power consumption.

Not really. We're throttling a 400 MHz processor down to 366 MHz, but
it's not those 34 MHz that kill performance; it's 16K of L1 with no L2.

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Ivan Krstić <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D
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