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Subject: Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:44:53 03/26/01

On March 26, 2001 at 20:54:48, Dan Andersson wrote:

>I have to agree that multibanked memory and lage cashe size are very beneficial.
>Those factors could very well explain the superlinearity.
>
>Regards Dan Andersson

I don't think the 4-way interleaving helps.  That _barely_ lets the machine
hold its own, memory-wise, because there are 4x as many cpus fighting over
access to memory... making it nearly 4x faster just barely breaks even.  The
larger L2 cache may well make a difference, of course...

Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Dan Andersson 08:02:49 03/28/01
Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Vincent Diepeveen 05:17:43 03/27/01
- Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Robert Hyatt 06:35:54 03/27/01
- Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Andrew Dados 05:52:15 03/27/01
  - Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Robert Hyatt 06:36:54 03/27/01
    - Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Vincent Diepeveen 10:34:12 03/27/01
      - Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Robert Hyatt 10:53:13 03/27/01
        
        Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Vincent Diepeveen 12:59:22 03/27/01
        
        Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC Robert Hyatt 13:09:10 03/27/01

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