[Python-Dev] String hash function multiplier (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Thu Apr 15 14:31:16 EDT 2004

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

Tim> What makes the current stepping of some flavor of P4 overwhelmingly Tim> important <0.3 wink>?

Unrelated to this thread, what does "stepping" mean? A quick Google search for "Pentium stepping glossary" yielded this page http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/help3.asp but doesn't explain why Intel uses "stepping" instead of "version" or "revision".

Here is a possible answer:

A stepping is the processor hardware equivalent of a new version. In software, we refer to minor version changes as 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and so on, while in processors we call these minor revisions steppings.

Found in <http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=130978&seqNum=22>

Thomas

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