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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (42157)11/24/1998 1:47:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) of 1571926
 
Re: ""FULL SPEED caches can provide almost NO BENEFITS in performance as a HALF SPEED cache of the same size ! ""

What Ali should have said (in order to avoid your nitpicking) was "FULL SPEED caches can provide almost NO BENEFITS in performance as a HALF SPEED cache of the same size FOR MOST APPLICATIONS WHICH A TYPICAL USER WOULD RUN ON A MAINSTREAM DESKTOP PC."

Clearly the the full speed L2 of the Xeon offers some benefit over a PII--however, most of the time the benefit is pretty undetectable to a user unless the user is doing something with a TON of bus traffic--like running a server.

Kevin
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