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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: Pentium bcopy
To: tege@matematik.su.se (Torbjorn Granlund)
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 12:57:48 +1100 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199512240116.CAA26645@insanus.matematik.su.se> from "Torbjorn Granlund" at Dec 24, 95 02:15:58 am
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Torbjorn Granlund writes:

> The reason that this is so much faster is that it uses the dual-ported
> cache is a near-optimal way.

Does this approach demonstrate any significant penalties with less
sophisticated cache architectures, for example 386DX or non-pipelined ?

	michael