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To: Scumbria who wrote (30318)11/20/1998 12:18:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (2) of 33344
 
Scumbria,

A dram page miss will cost 100 clocks on a 1GHz CPU. All the fancy CPU architecture in the world will do nothing to resolve this issue.


Not true and you know it Scumbria!... there are lots of things you can do to hide this latency. The most important would be for the CPU to be able to prefetch data into the caches. The first CPU that can do this automatically will have a tremendous advantage.

Steve
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