Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mtuxo!mtfmi!mec
From: mec@mtfmi.att.com (M.CONNICK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: RAM cache size
Message-ID: <1147@mtfmi.att.com>
Date: 2 Jun 89 12:57:10 GMT
References: <4178@bgsuvax.uucp> <141200040@cdp>
Reply-To: mec@mtfmi.UUCP (79153-M.CONNICK)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Middletown NJ
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In article <141200040@cdp> sklein@cdp.UUCP writes:

> Keep in mind that if you have a really big cache it may take longer to
> search the cache than it would have to just read the hard disk.  This
> is especially true on the MacPlus and SE where the 68000 runs at only
> 8 Mhz

Somehow I doubt that Apple is using a serial search to access disk
blocks in the cache! I'm sure they are using some type of hashing
scheme.

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Michael Connick    att!mtfmi!mec        201-957-3057
AT&T Bell Labs     MT 3F-113	        (Dept. 79153)