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To: Paul Engel who wrote (148799)	11/18/2001 11:40:40 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, thanks for the very informative post. It's amazing that the AMDroids can't seem to understand how much of a valuable resource you are, and would rather ostracize you for your unpopular opinions. wbmw

To: Paul Engel who wrote (148799)	11/19/2001 10:44:08 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

"TLB and branch predictor improvements would not - in most cases - increase context switching - instead, they improve performance where a single process contains multiple branches depending upon prior results from earlier on in the thread." You need a little education on the subject. While your assessment of branch predictor involvement in context switch may be true, you need to learn a bit or two about what the heck the TLB is, before spewing your infinite wisdom on uneducated public. The Translation Lookaside Buffer is an internal cache-like area where the processor stores the most recently used page table entries when operating in virtual-memory mode. In server environment, where task switches involve swithes to different virtual memory pages, the performance of TLB is critically important, which is just opposite to what you said. Please stop patronizing in areas where you have no clues what-so-ever, Paul. It is easy to impress spokepersons who cannot spell "Translation" and use "translational" instead. - Ali