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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: registerless architecture
Keywords: cache
Message-ID: <9B:6:YA@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 18:12:34 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.145410.29035@cs.cmu.edu> <56084@brunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <56084@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
> >context switch is fast and easy, there's nothing but CCR, PC, and FP.

> Ah, but no... you have to flush your cache anyway, you don't really
> gain anything here.

Unless you're one of those direct-mapped cache people... :->
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