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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!news.UVic.CA!spang.Camosun.BC.CA!camins.camosun.bc.ca!morley
  4. From: morley@camins.camosun.bc.ca
  5. Subject: Re: 486 external cache
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug27.123227.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
  7. Lines: 19
  8. Sender: news@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Network News)
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  10. Organization: Camosun College
  11. References: <w=jyc2h@rpi.edu> <1992Aug26.213221.25755@unislc.uucp> <jburney.714920310@seamis1>
  12. Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:32:27 GMT
  13.  
  14. In article <jburney.714920310@seamis1>, jburney@seamis1.gsfc.nasa.gov
  15. (Jeff Burney) writes:
  16. > I have read articles that indicate a negligible difference in performance
  17. > between 64k and greater, instruction caches.  So 128k is pretty much overkill.
  18.  
  19. This cache is used for many things, not the least of which is a video memory
  20. cache.  On my 486/50 with 64K cache my graphics routines ran fairly
  21. quickly.  When I upgraded to 256K cache, they ran much faster.  Nothing
  22. else was changed in my setup or routines.
  23.  
  24. > Just my opinion,
  25. > --
  26. > Jeff Burney                     SES, Inc.  301-439-6617        
  27. > jburney@seamis1.gsfc.nasa.gov   NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 
  28. > jburney@hydra.nodc.noaa.gov    NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center
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  30. MARK
  31. morley@camins.camosun.bc.ca
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