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To: Joe NYC who wrote (33447)3/25/2001 10:36:06 PM
From: ScumbriaRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Joe,

The L2 policy on T-Bird is strictly eviction-based, but there is nothing preventing the Palomino designers from supporting prefetching. It is not a huge change to add an extra datapath into the L2.

Prefecthing into the L1 would be a really bad idea, because of timing and performance issues.

Scumbria
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