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Re: SRAM vs. DRAM, 33MHz 386 UNIX-PC

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From: Hank Dietz
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 15:08
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In article <1083@cernvax.UUCP> hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews) writes:
>In article <3934@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> kleinman@hplabs.hp.com (Bruce Kleinman) writes:
>>[...I said that data caches aren't any good for long loops...]
...
>But I can always find some access pattern that makes a data cache
>ineffective.  For instance, if the line size of the cache is N bytes,

Yes for conventional cache management, not really for compiler-driven
cache management (as I've said many times before  ;-).  See:

	Chi-Hung Chi, "Compiler-Driven Cache Management Using A State Level
	Transition Model," PhD dissertation, Purdue University, May 1989.

						-hankd@ecn.purdue.edu
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From: hankd@pur-ee.UUCP (Hank Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: SRAM vs. DRAM, 33MHz 386 UNIX-PC
Message-ID: <12833@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 15:08:45 GMT
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