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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (44621)	1/3/1999 12:35:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571567

Elmer, <As for latencies, I didn't mention them so how do you figure I have a problem?> Exactly because you didn't mention them :) <but you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.> I would not be so sure. Near the ground it may blow in one direction (if you manage to average correctly all turbulent components using your salived finger), while a few hundred meters higher it may blow in opposite direction... However, if you want to know why it is blowing in this or that direction, you would need to take 2-4 semesters of basic hydrodynamics on the top of caclulus-II. But if you are in need to learn which way it will blow in two days from now, I am afraid you will have serious difficulties studying subjects that are two-three levels above that - nonlinear dynamics and theory of chaos. The same holds for caches - you are trying to speculate about multiple streams of data blowing in and out across ridges of cache boundaries at two or three levels, along with chaotically mapped virtual pages, by using your only wet finger. No way Elmer. Drive carefully.