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Re: [PLUG] Use of dual core
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Hi
I am going to purchase one device with this processor "ARM996HS".
That will nip all these issues in the bud.
http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM996HS.html
I am not sure whether they will be successful with this
With regards
Antony
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 12:28 -0400, Doug Crompton wrote:
> Regardless of this argument I would say that most of us should be using
> some kind of speed management to reduce power consumption. It seems
> fruitless when you consider only your system but think of that multiplied
> by millions of computers and it really does make a differnece. Megawatts
> of power acutally!
>
> Doug
>
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Antony P Joseph wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > > Well, regardless of whether it's a hack or not, it does work and is a far
> > > better approach than leaving the processor running at full speed even when it
> > > isn't doing anything, which is why all modern CPUs do it. Seriously, did I
> > > not make it clear that there _isn't_ a performance hit already? I don't wish
> > > to be rude, but if you reply to someones message, do give them the bare
> > > minimum courtesy by at least reading it first.
> > Probably this is due to the different understanding of the word
> > "performance" in computer industry. Different people interpret the word
> > different ways such as latency, response time, even throughput and so
> > on. This is what I used.
> >
> > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/tutorials/alliance98/slides/tutorial/sld004.htm
> >
> > Performance suffers because there is a mechanism( an algorithm) involved
> > in determining the ideal frequency of the CPU(that itself may not be
> > guaranteed ideal frequency). If you plot a graph performance vs
> > throughput for a fixed amount of power consumption for different
> > governors, "powersave" will be highest throughput and smallest
> > performance , "performance" will be highest performance and smallest
> > throughput and "ondemand" may move along a curve between "performance"
> > and "powersave" depending on the algorithm used and characteristics of
> > the workload.
> >
> > With regards
> > Antony
> >
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>
> "Those that sacrifice essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
> deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin (1759)
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