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Date:      Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:52:31 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        dyson@iquest.net
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New LINT options: what is VM coloring?
Message-ID:  <199807272352.QAA06351@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807272305.SAA02258@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Jul 27, 98 06:05:17 pm

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> But - but - but, the L1 cache is small!!!  Is our terminology mixed-up?
> 
> On X86en, L2 cache is the big one.  I thought that on an Alpha, the
> L3 cache is the big one.  I don't know how one would fit the working
> set into a 16K or even 128K cache?!?!?!?  I can understand fitting
> the working set into a 1M -> 4M L3 cache though :-).

Maybe DEC hired coders from outside instead of bringing them over
from their VMS division, where memory is free... 8-).

What they call each of the caches is pretty standard, I think.  Maybe
it was a misprint in their white paper.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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