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To: Scumbria who wrote (53035)	3/22/1999 4:04:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) of 1583152

Scumbria, What K7 has that Intel and IBM don't, is a 3-cycle L1 cache lookup. P6, PPC, K6, M1 all use a 2-cycle cache lookup. Why is it better to get results out of the cache in three cycles, rather than in two cycles? It's the sooner the better in computers, isn't it? Tony

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