this shouldn't have to be the case, when the P-pro came out it was like that because of it's new features and intel just wanted to get it out the door, but when the P-II came out it had optimization for 16 bit code + a lot of other bug fixes. If it is slower, that's likely to change eventually.
> I'm not sure what types of processes make heavy use of this cache but there > performance is degraded by HyperThreading from what I understand. Basically > if it ain't written for it, it will probably run worse rather than better.
