From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 12 09:13:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA09018 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from becker1.u.washington.edu (spaz@becker1.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA09013 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (spaz@localhost) by becker1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW97.03) with SMTP id JAA10427; Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:13:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:13:34 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: "Kevin P. Neal" cc: Jonathan Lemon , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: harvard architectures are not discredited! sorry!Re: 430TX ? In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970412071347.006fd5ac@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Oh god.... i cant believe i started this, now it looks like people think my professor is stupid, else i would have just let this drop.... *i* said that! i am sorry! it is my opinion, evidently not shared by most knowledgable people! On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > 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!" > > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life