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Subject: Re: 64-bit machines

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:06:00 02/10/03

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On February 10, 2003 at 12:00:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>big your working set is. Just run your program on a certain processor and vary
>>its clock speed. If the program scales [more or less] linearly, your working set
>>is smaller than the CPU's caches.
>Come on.  Suppose the working set is 500mb?  It will very likely scale
>"linearly"
>anyway.  Because _all_ memory references are going to be memory references.

I figured the "scale linearly with CPU clock speed" was implied, seeing as I was
talking about varying a CPU's clock speed. I don't know what kind of memory you
have that gets faster when you increase you're CPU's clock speed.

-Tom



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