Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: question about M2 "feature" | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 1997 13:47:41 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Mike Jagdis wrote: > It isn't a special area of "scrathpad RAM". The 6x86MX allows you > to lock down L1 cache lines. This means that the line will never > be discard and hence you will never take a reload hit on the > region of memory it is covering. Of course, you also have one > less line of L1 cache available for general caching too...
Ah. For those interested: Intel 960s have a similar arrangement.
Roger.
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