Re: Game Dev System

["Robert Roy" <macgregor@campbellcounty.com>]

AMD has more cache on their processors than Intel has on the Pentium III's.
The problem is that the cache doesn't run at the full speed of the CPU,
which will be fixed in a month or so with the introduction of on-die cache.
----- Original Message -----
From: "J C Lawrence" <claw@kanga.nu>
To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: Game Dev System


> On Sat, 4 Mar 2000 23:55:46 -0500
> Robert S Whitlock <roberts.j.whitlock@juno.com> wrote:
>
> > Whoa!! 4 1Ghz processors!!!! >:-D
>
> I'll be a little more impressed when AMD start putting large caches
> on their CPUs.  I've regularly blown away systems with twice my
> clock speed due to the simple fact of having 2Meg L1 caches versus
> thei 512K.
>
> That, and DES-Crack runs like a blue spit banshee under 2Meg caches.
> Not surprising since the entire working set fits in cache...
>
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