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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

RMBS 88.13

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To: Joe Donato who wrote (25231)	7/19/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: Carl R.	Read Replies (3) of 93625

I knew a guy once that had a special engineering simulation program that had only one loop that was about 16MB in size, and was executed many, many times. His is the only application I can think of that would benefit significantly from a faster CPU-memory interface. For other applications, where an 80% L1 cache hit rate, and a 90%+ L2 cache hit rate is the norm, I wouldn't expect to see more than a 3-5% improvement. From my experience improvements smaller than about 30% are not noticeable to users not holding stopwatches. How much more will users be willing to pay for a product that produces no noticeable benefit, especially in an era of super low-cost computers? Carl

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