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Article #23076Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon
From: Natuerlich!
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:21
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:21
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In article <1993Jan22.162113.13989@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
>> You see, the CPU doesn't spend all it's time accessing memory. Many
>> instructions involve no memory access at all. Others access memory,
>> but also spend a lot of time processing the instruction. And if an
>> instruction or data is already in the on-chip cache, it will be just as
>> fast regardless of the bus width.
What about if a DMA transfer is going on, is this done over the video
(32 bit part) ?
>can someone make a list of typical sorts of programs that would be really
>"memory-intensive" so as to really suffer from this 16-bit memory bus?
>
Anything that's video intensive f.e.
Nat!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!wallmann From: wallmann@backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Natuerlich!) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Falcon, Falcon who has got a Falcon Date: 23 Jan 1993 19:21:11 GMT Organization: MSD software vault #9 @THD Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1js5r7INNevj@rs2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <1993Jan20.194026.25748@westminster.ac.uk> <11809@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <1993Jan22.162113.13989@bsu-ucs> NNTP-Posting-Host: backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de