Re: Game Dev System

[Habil Silva <habil.silva@netc.pt>]

You mean 2Mb _L2_ cache, don't you?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 7:39 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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