Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Content Addressible Memories
Message-ID: <1988Dec16.184637.2818@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12371@srcsip.UUCP> <367@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM> <6694@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <1929@scolex>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 88 18:46:37 GMT

In article <1929@scolex> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
>I think that CAM would help AWK in many circumstances (accessing any member
>of an array would help *alot*), but I haven't actually sat down and done any
>work on it.

The question is not whether it would help, but whether it would help *more*
than an equivalent investment in making the general-purpose CPU and memory
faster, or in smarter hashing algorithms, or in more memory to speed up
hashing by minimizing collisions.  I doubt it.
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