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- From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Is a 486-33 with 0 ws cache faster than a 486-50 with 1 w
- Message-ID: <714443037snx@ananke.stgt.sub.org>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 00:23:57 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.060405.15165@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Organization: ananke
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- In article <1992Aug16.060405.15165@ariel.ec.usf.edu> fevrier@sunburn.ec.usf.edu. writes:
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- > With just the 8k internal cache, the speed was 106 !!! ,
- > almost the same as having both caches enabled.
- >
- > Does this mean that my 256k external cache has been a waste of
- > hard earned money????
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- When running small benchmarks or small loops which totally fit into the
- internal 8K cache, you will *never* see any effect from external
- caches. The bigger your programs are, the more processes are running
- concurrently, the bigger is the effect of an external cache.
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