Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 08:32:09 06/30/03
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On June 30, 2003 at 09:01:02, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On June 30, 2003 at 00:09:06, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>>That program is so outdated technical seen that it still more or less fits in >>>the L1 cache, nowadays called trace cache. >> >>I think you might understand a trace cache, but that statement is seriously off. >> A trace cache is not a synonym for a L1 cache. > >P4 doesn't have a L1 instruction cache instead it has a trace cache which >doesn't hold instructions but decoded instructions instead (so they do not need >to decode them before executing, in itself a genious idea). Thats not all a trace cache does, but the point is the statement "the L1 cache, nowadays called trace cache" is simply incorrect. Trace caches don't cache data, nor is the Athlon's L1 cache called a trace cache. I'm simply saying that you need to be more precise with your terms.
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