"Harry Lavo" wrote in message
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Actually, for audio recording and mixing purposes, the AMD chip is
generally regarded as outperforming the Intel chips. I'll have to rely on
others to explain why, as I don't know.

It could well do some computations faster. If I were trying to build a
Pentium-compatible chip without violating Intel's patents, I'd probably end
up with somewhat different amounts of time taken to execute some of the
instructions. Generally, when a CPU is redesigned from scratch, the
redesigners end up making some of the instructions appreciably faster
because they think of things the original designers didn't think of, or they
know (from experience) that some instructions are more frequently used than
the original designers foresaw. One of the things you'd do, of course, is
study existing software to see which CPU instructions it's using in
time-critical portions.

As you can guess, I'm a computer scientist, not a musician...