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Doug

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:19 pm
Post subject: Intel P4's: why so cheap on the L1 cache?
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My old Athlon XP had 64KB instruction + 64KB data L1 cache, why did Intel go
so cheap and only include 16KB data and 12Ku-op on the P4's? Hell, even the
K62's had 32KB instruction + 32KB data w/their L1 cache!

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:19 pm
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"Doug" <noone DeleteThis @nowhere.com> writes:

> My old Athlon XP had 64KB instruction + 64KB data L1 cache, why did Intel go
> so cheap and only include 16KB data and 12Ku-op on the P4's? Hell, even the
> K62's had 32KB instruction + 32KB data w/their L1 cache!

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/580459.html

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:45 pm
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On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:19:16 +0000, Doug wrote:

> My old Athlon XP had 64KB instruction + 64KB data L1 cache, why did Intel go
> so cheap and only include 16KB data and 12Ku-op on the P4's? Hell, even the
> K62's had 32KB instruction + 32KB data w/their L1 cache!
Because Intel just sells his band, not technology. I love AMD as you love.
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