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		greenyoda on June 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Makes a PDP-11/35 Tick? I accounted for the additional processing units by dividing the number of transistors by the number of processor cores on the i3 chip (there are two). Since the question was asking about getting performance that's comparable to the original processor, we'd need to keep the cache.

davidgould on June 10, 2019 [–]

I don't think you need to keep all the cache.The cpu will be much slower due to the slower chips and propagation delays so it will be much better matched to memory speeds. Which would make cache misses much less important.

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