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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (39309)	10/14/1998 4:56:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) of 1573876

Kevin, re: <Don't leave us hanging.... What does it [instruction trace cache] do?> Whoops, sorry. I was talking mainly to Ali, who I assume knows more about the thing than I do. As I understood it, the ITC will store decoded instructions so that the next time the instructions are needed, in loops for example, the x86 instructions wouldn't have to be decoded again. I'm not sure what the exact benefits are. I'll try to find out more about it. Tenchusatsu

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