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To: Joe NYC who wrote (133655)9/23/2004 11:16:43 PM
From: Pravin KamdarRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Joe,

It makes sense to have a bigger cache on mobile chips to achieve a given performance level for number of reasons:...

Yeah, I was considering your points, but I thought the benchmarks show that larger L2 it makes little difference for AMD64. I know it helps a little. I wonder how much of it is a marketing thing, since they are competing against a 2MB L2 Dothan.

Pravin