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To: Tony Viola who wrote (82243)5/31/1999 11:14:00 PM
From: kapkan4u  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
<Tony - re: Anyone have a rule of thumb for how much difference main memory makes in performance, anyway, what with caches getting bigger and faster all the time? I thought main memory had been pushed well into the background as a serious performance factor. >

IMHO, just the contrary is true. As the speed gap between the CPU and DRAM increases, so does the penalty of a cache miss.

Kap.


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