Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!fub!uniol!unido!rwthinf!cip-s02!stefanb From: stefanb@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: SRAM and BURST mode on 3000 Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 20:03:19 GMT References: <1408@ewu.UUCP> <5665@mnetor.UUCP> <8332@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <18764@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb11.015011.621@medsys.uucp> <18888@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Lines: 17 daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >They don't stay on because you don't want them on, probably. The OS folks, >like Bryce, have done testing to find out which parameters, both in RAMSEY >and 68030 cache control, yield the best performance. Not in the reasonably >silly benchmark programs around, but in actual test of representative code. >Even Dhrystone 2.x will show that page-detect mode (what SetRAMSEY calls >static column mode) is at best a draw, and sometimes a loss, in most programs. >Plus, it has a potential conflict with hard disk DMA. Apparently, SetRAMSEY But why then pay the extra price for SCRAM???? Stefan Mail : Stefan Becker, Holsteinstrasse 9, D-5100 Aachen /// Only Phone : +49-241-505705 FIDO: 2:242/7.6 Germany /// Amiga makes Domain: stefanb@informatik.rwth-aachen.de \\\/// it possible.. Bang : ..mcvax!unido!rwthinf!stefanb \XX/ -->A3000/25<--