Then the clock speeds began to go up as AMD and Intel fought each other
and the
G4 lagged behind except on stuff you could put into vector format for SIMD
processing and it still smoked P3/P4 at twice the clockspeed.

How did it compare when the scales were evened out and the code also
supported the SSE and SSE2 SIMD sets?

Now we get the G5, which I think at least closes the gap.

That does look likely.

Likely, it's probably
going to run ahead on some stuff and a bit behind on other stuff. But it
looks
like it is all in the same ballpark.

Yep.

-S