I remember a _few_ year ago when all specialists (Intel's) included agreed that the 100MHZ barrier would never be passed - so, at least, we did get free lunch for a couple of years :-)
I also must add that in my 17 years of realtime/embedded programming, the problem usually was not the CPU speed - since you know _prior_ to the design of your software whether your CPU will change context on time when the hardware IRQ comes in - but rather the fact that all the software/peripherals had to share the same bus ==> that usually was where the bottleneck was. I guess my point is to not focus the performance of a system solely on its CPU's. Regards, Philippe -- *************************** Philippe C. Martin SnakeCard LLC www.snakecard.com *************************** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
