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From: Donald Lindsay
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 00:24

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In article <WAYNE.90Feb23091735@dsndata.uucp> wayne@dsndata.uucp 
	(Wayne Schlitt) writes:
>i am sure there _are_ real programs that can fit entirely in the 68030's
>massive (:-) 256 byte data and instruction caches.  i am sure there
>are a lot more real programs that can fit entirely in a 8k cache.  i
>am sure that a lot of real programs will fit nicely in 32k-128k
>caches.

Programs certainly do vary. The transaction people at Concurrent say
that their idea of a cache is a megabyte. There may also be programs
with essentially no locality: this has been claimed for some network
communications software.  (The point was that the packets would be
processed exactly once, and then passed along, never to be seen
again.)
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science

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