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From: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: flexible caches
Keywords: cache registers
Message-ID: <643@unicads.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 89 16:26:54 GMT
References: <224@qusunr.queensu.CA>
Reply-To: les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash)
Organization: Unicad  Boulder, CO
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In article <224@qusunr.queensu.CA> levisonm@qucis.queensu.CA (Mark Levison) writes:
>[caching tricks are like compiler-directed use of registers]
>The only problem with this scheme
>[is that] programs might have to be recompiled [...]
my old friend Griff Hamlin said that at LANL they'd never keep the object code,
since you could compile,link,load,and start spewing results faster than
9600 baud could keep up anyway.  (we're talking Crays).