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From: dtynan@altos86.Altos.COM (Dermot Tynan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Caches
Summary: How about a description...
Message-ID: <95@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 20 Jun 89 22:42:30 GMT
References: <799@acorn.co.uk>
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <799@acorn.co.uk>, SFurber@acorn.co.uk writes:
> 
> At first sight a write buffer looks a lot simpler to build than a write-back
> cache, because of the flushing issues involved in context switching or
> paging with the latter. However Jouppi (Proceedings of 16th International
> Symposium on Computer Architecture, p. 287) states that for similar
> performance "A write-back cache is a simpler design...".
> 
> Steve Furber (sfurber@acorn.uucp)

That's nice.  How about a little proof, for those of us who don't happen to
have the proceedings near at hand...  What did he base his arguments on?
							- Der






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