From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 12 00:13:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA18567 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from borg.mindspring.com (borg.mindspring.com [204.180.128.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA18562 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-37kb9bk.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.165.116]) by borg.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA01043; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 03:13:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970412071347.006fd5ac@mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 03:13:47 -0400 To: Jonathan Lemon From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: 430TX ? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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!"