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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton schreef op vr 27-03-2020 om 09:44 [+0000]:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 9:25 AM Staf Verhaegen <staf@fibraservi.eu> wrote=
:
> > My point is that you will have the same performance for the fixed 5-sta=
ge pipeline running @ 800MHz
>=20
> no, it won't: it'll be half the clock speed.  it won't be double thenumbe=
r of computations: it'll be the exact same number ofcomputations.  therefor=
e, half the speed means half the number ofcomputations because the *through=
put* is the same
> when you use "cpufreq-set" to change the clock rate, if the clock rateis =
halved, the computer is twice as slow.

You are right.

> yes it's confusing :)

Yes and no, it is the basic functionality of a pipeline :(
You have the same latency but can have double the number of operations in f=
light.

greets,
Staf.




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