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From: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Cheap CPU cache (was Re: A500/14 MHz 68k?)
Message-ID: <948@mpirbn.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 10:13:00 GMT
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Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <BRENT.90May2143407@asparagine.phri.nyu.edu> brent@asparagine.phri.nyu.edu (Brent Hobbs) writes:
>In article <943@mpirbn.UUCP> p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) writes:
>>   A second approach does give about 70-80% speedup on average programs and
>>   will affect kickstart operations as well. This is a cache for the CPU.
>Would you care to post the design for such a beast?  BTW, where are
>you getting your performance figures?  Anyone out there done this?

The design is published in the german magazine 'ST Computer' from
'Markt&Technik'.
It has been tested with some calculation intensive programs: a raytracer,
a mandelbrot generator and a DTP program called 'Calamus'.

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Michael van Elst
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