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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:02:42 -0600
From:      Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp), nate@sneezy.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, core@FreeBSD.org, peter@bonkers.taronga.com
Subject:   Re: NMI Error success story 
Message-ID:  <199503191403.IAA24867@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 00:19:40 PST." <199503190819.AAA22929@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> 

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> > > Humm.. 3+1+1+1 = 6, 3+2+2+2=9, should have been 30% faster if everything
> > > hit the cache, figure an actual cache hit rate of 80% and you should have
> > > seen a 24% performance increase by this.

> > Well, 10% is what I saw on "make world"...

> We must be missing the cache a lot more than I figured on.

Um, getting a 10% improvement on "make world" which is dependent on so much
more than CPU speed alone from a 24% improvement in CPU speed isn't such a
small thing.



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