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To: vince doran who wrote (74983)	10/11/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576308

Re: "Elmer: If you are interested in how much pre-fetch optimization might help the Athlon, go to JC's page and read back about 3 days to some news of an actual experiment. Floating point performance improved by more than 40% in some cases." I am certain that Athlon will benefit from prefetch, at least to some extent. My point was that I think it's wrong to attribute ALL of CuMines spec gains to prefetch alone. CuMine has lower L2 latency and 16x the L2 bandwidth of Athlon, plus other enhancements. These have to count for some, if not most of the gains. EP