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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 08:34:59 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- james@Snark.apana.org.au (James Burton) writes:
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- >This is a common misconception. There is no significant performance hit
- >with virtual memory, the address translations are done in hardware
- >effectively as part of the RAM. If they couldn't be done within a RAM cycle
- >then somebody would find a faster way of doing it (read wider RAM).
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- There is a noticable but small performance hit caused by the MMU
- if there is a translation cache miss. Nothing to be excited about,
- but you can't ignore it either.
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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