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To: Prognosticator who wrote (42751)4/6/2001 12:46:24 AM
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Prog - that 5% is an amazingly optimistic projection. Disabling prefetch on another RISC chip I worked with dropped performance by 30% in database applications and by 25% in a transaction mix. 5% implies a very lucky instruction sequence and infrequent processor stalls on that sequence, or an I/O bound process where the processor speed is immaterial. I'm sure someone will run some real-world tests and that will tell the tale.
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