You do realize that the Atom is meant for embedded systems, right? It doesn't have a lot in the way of on-die cache, and so its performance with random addresses and heap allocation will be fairly bad, and on par with an old Celeron. Unless it's paired with DDR3 (or faster) RAM, the Atom will be a chugger thanks to all the capacity misses.
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kev @ May 2nd 2008 6:49PM
You do realize that the Atom is meant for embedded systems, right? It doesn't have a lot in the way of on-die cache, and so its performance with random addresses and heap allocation will be fairly bad, and on par with an old Celeron. Unless it's paired with DDR3 (or faster) RAM, the Atom will be a chugger thanks to all the capacity misses.