Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:48:28 -1000 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: P-II vs K6-2 Message-ID: <199903170148.PAA16490@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> "Re: P-II vs K6-2" (Mar 17, 11:30am)
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} } Whether you get better performance out of a small, fast L2 cache or a } larger, slower one depends entirely on the application. It would be } really interesting to see some figures here instead of theory. } } Greg } -- Don't forget to define `small'. I don't consider 64MB to be small. The old rule of thumb used to be that 64MB is enough for 80% hit rate, on average. Diminishing returns come pretty quickly after that. How big is the Celeron cache? Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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