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To: kapkan4u who wrote (82246)5/31/1999 11:52:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
KK,

IMHO, just the contrary is true. As the speed gap between the CPU and DRAM
increases, so does the penalty of a cache miss.

Yes, but you build caches that result in missing being a rarity, and, when you do miss, you do other things like take advantage of OOOE (out of order execution) to keep busy. Well, it ain't that simple, I know. Obviously, main memory performance is important in computers having very fast processors.

Tony
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