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To: Joe NYC who wrote (3968)	8/8/2000 11:59:23 AM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 275872

Hi Josef, The performance loss from lack of support for critical word first bursting is significant. But, considering an access typically requires about 8 cycles (at 133 Mhz) before presentation of the first word to the CPU, overlapping of access cycles, aggressive OOO capabilities and the typical success rate of prefetch during high bandwidth phases of execution, not nearly what one might think. Anyway, AMD will hopefully address this issue with the integrated NorthBridge of Sledgehammer.