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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (162713)	3/21/2002 2:51:32 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 186894

WBMW, AMD can go with higher-associative caches because they typically run their processors at lower clock speeds than Intel. In other words, it's easier for them to increase the associativity, at least when you look at the problem from this angle alone. Don't worry about what the 'Droids will claim. When they see favorable results for AMD's processors, they'll point to some well-marketed feature and claim, "That's the reason!" It doesn't matter whether that feature actually has any effect or not, because the truth takes a back seat to their need to believe fantasies. By the way, if you want to battle armchair experts, it might help to get minor facts straight. An 8 KB fully associative cache will not have 8192 ways, unless you think the size of each cacheline is one byte. ;-) Tenchusatsu

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