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To: Ali Chen who wrote (107326)4/22/2000 1:46:00 AM
From: Charles R  Respond to of 1572946
 
Ali,

<Athlon and Alpha have 64bytes cacheline, Pentiums
have 32Bytes.>

Looks like two people answered this before I did. Oh, well, the good thing is we all agree.

<<The critical word is always forwarded directly to the execution unit,>
Surprisingly, Rambus does not do this :)>

Do you mean 820? Or do you mean no RDRAM controller will ever do this? (There could be some significant repercussions if the latter were to be the case.)

Chuck



To: Ali Chen who wrote (107326)4/22/2000 9:56:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1572946
 
Ali,

<The critical word is always forwarded directly to the execution unit,>
Surprisingly, Rambus does not do this :)

Can you elaborate? There would be serious performance implications if true.

Scumbria


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