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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Jaye Mathisen wrote:

> 
> Hmmm, as of -current supped on the 11th and 12th, my box is working just
> yippee skippee after a make world.  
> 
> Although I'm not using John's cache color mumbo-jumbo voodoo
> evilness.

It's really not voodoo, it's about better distribution of addresses in the
cache.  You can do this by using some spare space to vary the offsets into
actively used chunks of memory.

Cool stuff.

Regards,


Mike Hancock