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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (101249)3/31/2000 10:51:00 AM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572919
 
Bill,

But Athlon core already has 128K of L1. So the question is what is the improvement in the hit ratio in ging to 192 L1 + L2?

Also, the existence of L2 has it's own penalty. Doesn't the CPU have to (on L1 miss) lookup the memory in L2 before going to main memory? With no L2, this lookup is eliminated.

Joe