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From: ge@hobbit.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Self-modifying code
Message-ID: <299@hobbit.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 25 Jul 88 13:23:38 GMT
References: <1087@ficc.UUCP>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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From article <1087@ficc.UUCP>, by peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva):
> I have a question:
> 
> 	Why are an Icache plus a Dcache better than just
> 	a big shared cache as big as both?

The answer is bandwidth. The CPU does not have to stop filling the instruction
pipeline when it accesses/writes data.
-- 
Ge' Weijers, Informatics dept., Nijmegen University, the Netherlands
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