From: buzz_mccool@yahoo.com   
      
   On 12/1/2025 10:25 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:   
   > Users mostly care about performances more than about architectural   
   > brilliance, and so if a vendor can gain performance by adding cores and   
   > kludges, they have strong incentive to do so regardless of how much   
   > elegance they started with. ...   
      
   Understood, and thanks for the information about the TI MSP430.   
      
   It's a bit silly, but I like to peruse this benchmark site and think about   
   getting a system powered by some forgotten gem.   
   https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_alltime.html   
      
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