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From: grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Was: RISC is a nasty no-no! Mor
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Date: 8 Mar 88 16:19:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald    Mar  8 10:19:00 1988


re: address hashing to randomize bank conflicts.

I would think that this would be too slow in software. However, if I recall
correctly, randomized hashing was done in hardware on the RP-3 (it had some
sort of variable hashing so you could fiddle with the parameters).