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To: jcholewa who wrote (20192)	11/22/2000 10:53:10 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Let's hope that stuff is worth an interesting difference in performance." Well, personally I would guess that the transistors would be better spent on things other than the branch prediction, but it seems to play well with everyone else. I also suspect that you have to work over the exclusive cache circuitry for hardware pre-fetch, otherwise you wind up pre-fetching stuff into the L1 that has to be evicted if it is wrong, which is a strong possibility. But, AMD had to totally re-work the cache anyway to make it modular so that might not have been that big of a deal.