From: Shalev NessAiver <shalev@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T06:49:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby performance question


On Mar 29, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Timothy Hunter wrote:

> Gavin Kistner wrote:
>
>> But why would a 2GHz G5 not be at least twice as fast as a 1GHz G4?
>> G5 versus G4 aside, the doubling of the clock rate alone should 
>> suffice, no?
>
>
> Did memory access speed double, too? Bus speed? Things happen outside 
> of the CPU.
>
>
>

Yes.  The G5 has a 1ghz bus compared to the G4's 167mhz.  The RAM also 
increased in speed significantly.