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>>I was hoping you'd jump in here. So basically, it is likely that that level of performance you might expect to see from the higher clock speed won't be present. Is that correct?
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>Yep - stalls in the execution stream lose all the advantages of the new architecture, and you end up bound by RAM performance rather than CPU.

It's been awhile since I read the article I referenced in the link, but I seem to recall thinking that file I/O might also be negatively impacted. If so, this could cause further performance degradation. Is this correct was well or did I mis-interpret something?