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From: jbell@grofe.DEC (Jeff Bell)
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Subject: caches in vector machines
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 11:46:18 EST
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Most people agree that cacheing is a good way to improve the performance
of scalar machines.  Does anyone have information on the use of caches
in vector machines?  Has anyone ever built a cached vector machine?
How much bigger does it have to be to get a reasonable hit rate.

Jeff Bell
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