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- From: "Frank Wille" <frank@phoenix.owl.de>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:54:24 +0200
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- Subject: Re: Blizzard 1230IV how good ?
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- Mike wrote on 11 Feb 96 14:46:46 +0000
- about "Re: Blizzard 1230IV how good ?" :
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- M> >These are the measurements from my A4000/040:
- M>
- M> >---8<---
- M> >Memory Speed Test
- M> >⌐ Copyright Frank Wille, February 1996.
- M>
- M> >Type read write
- M> >Chip Ram 4553 kB/s 4566 kB/s
- M> >Fast Ram 11340 kB/s 6020 kB/s
- M> >---8<---
- M> From my A4000/030 :)
- M> -------
- M> ╗ Memory Speed Test ½
- M> Copyright 1996 by Frank Wille.
- M>
- M> Type read write
- M> Chip Ram 3742 kB/s 5747 kB/s
- M> Fast Ram 11908 kB/s 15843 kB/s
- M> -------
- M>
- M> This is in a 32col dblpal 720x520 screen (wb)
- M>
- M> I can get chip r/w 4349/6890 kB/s on a 2 colour screen :9
- M> ^^^^
- M> so thats approaching 7Mb/sec
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- A3640 sucks... :(
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-
- M> anybody care to explain why writes are faster than reads?
-
- I think it's because of the 030's data cache. Writes are performed
- as 'write through', bypassing the cache. Reads are updated in cache
- first, then read from cache again.
-
- Disable data cache and you will see that both are nearly equal.
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