POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Re: choosing CPU : Re: choosing CPU Server Time
14 Aug 2024 03:17:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: choosing CPU  
From: Redaelli Paolo
Date: 3 Apr 1970 08:54:41
Message: <968.397T2073T8942873@inc.it>
>Joshua Johaneman wrote:
>> Except, don't they use a Reduced instruction set? which is faster for some
>> things and slower for others?

>Actually RISC chips are faster than their equavilent CISC chip, but
>often progams written for a RISC platform require a larger memory foot
>print....or at least this is so as far as Alpha apps compared to Intel
>apps are concerned...
As much as 2x than the Cisc version. But Windows does everything to erase this
advantage, being much much much slower and requiring much much more Ram than ANY other
OS's!!!!

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