Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 03:13:47 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX ? Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970412071347.006fd5ac@mindspring.com>
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At 01:13 PM 4/11/97 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >On Apr 04, 1997 at 09:46:26AM -0700, John Utz wrote: >> >> my instructor claims they separated the cache into instruction >> cache and data-cache.....a previously 'discredited' architecture known to > >Discredited? Since when? All other things being equal, separate I+D caches >almost always outperform merged caches. Don't you just love university profs who teach their opinion, and they call it "fact". Then they don't teach how they came up with their opinion, so the student graduates with a bunch of stuff in his/her head and doesn't really "get it". CC line trimmed. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"
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