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Date:      Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:29:01 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 430TX ? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970413230326.16464B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <E0wGTqz-00060j-00@rover.village.org>

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On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.970413185032.14446A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> Narvi writes:
> : 4MB SRAM simms (12 ns) are available now. But where shall you plug
> : them into? I really doubt any present PC/PowerPC/Alpha chipset is capable
> : of making use of SRAM. Though it would make wonders to applicatiions
> : hindered by present memory throughput
> 
> I have a R4700 based MIPS board that uses 4M SRAM SIMM-like things.

Cool!

I guess there are also DSP boards out there may also support simm sockets
for expansion RAM. 

In the case of SRAM main memory we live in a world without L2-cache
misses, right? OK, it won't, the penalty would just be smaller/nonexistant
(the L2 chache get trashed in the beginning of first loop, the usefulness
for the rest is real small and other such "pathological" cases).

Well, enough ranting - I just hate it when it doesn't make any visible
differnce whetever the file is already cached in memory or being read in
from a scsi disk on the fly or which Ppro you used.

	Sander

> 
> Warner
> 




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