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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: physical vs. virtual cache
Keywords: cache
Message-ID: <13413@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 24 Mar 89 13:19:38 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady,NY
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Would someone like to describe the less obvious features of cache types
in terms of real estate, design problems, etc? I see lots of allusions
but damn few hard facts.

Unless you disagree with these, they've been mentioned many times:
	virtual:
	  fast, no address translation needed
	physical:
	  no need to flush on context switch
	  no aliasing problems
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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