Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 15:26:18 08/08/02
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On August 08, 2002 at 16:40:14, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >The latency will be important, yes, because you will spend the time waiting for >the data to come from the main memory. But bandwidth? Each probe will be exactly > the size of one cacheline or a small multiple thereof. > >You're not moving huge continous chunks of RAM back and forth in hashing, but >randomly distributed tiny amounts of data. What will determine your speed is not >the bandwith but the latency. > >-- >GCP Thats odd.. because when I tested with Cachemem the latencies between the two settings were basically identical.. yet I get this boost from a 57% memory increase. If you'd like you can do similar tests yourself and I can provide you with cachemem to test your latencies (and it does a mem bandwidth test).
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