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In article <RANG.89Sep10184900@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>  The problem is that caching something is not without cost.  Loading
>128 words into the cache from main memory is generally just as
>expensive as fetching 128 words from main memory directly.  The cache
>only helps if you're doing multiple fetches of the same memory
>location before it's overwritten with other data.

Not if main memory is pipelined and interleaved.  In that case the
cache may be filled fairly rapidly since consecutive locations are
accessed.

--Steve
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