Date: 06/22/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: no keywords

These numbers lead to an interesting question. Since "everyone knows" that Pentiums are faster and cheaper than powerPC chips, how come they seem capable of only about two thirds as much work even when run at a nearly a third more cycles per second?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=348&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog