OT? Upper limits of FSB

[Chuck Guzis]

On 1/8/19 1:23 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote:

> Why so (why surprising, I mean)? Understood an unrolled loop executes
> faster...

That can't always be true, can it?

I'm thinking of an architecture where the instruction cache is slow to
fill and multiple overlapping operations are involved and branch
prediction assumes a branch taken.  I'd say it was very close in that case.

--Chuck