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To: graphicsguru who wrote (253023)	6/8/2008 1:40:48 AM
From: dougSF30	Respond to of 275872

I think it very unlikely that any real application accesses ~6MB of data over and over in a random-enough fashion and frequently enough (relative to other work) to advantage a 6MB L2 over a 256KB much-faster L2 (together with much slower L3) to the extent that Nehalem's large number of other improvements (both in the core, and in main-memory latency/bandwidth) over Penryn can't make up for it during "the rest" of the application. Even a single-threaded app. This is probably why mas has not made any such specific claim as of yet.