Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:37:25 02/12/03
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On February 12, 2003 at 00:27:20, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >and it is called a Cache Miss :) There is no way for a compiler to account for >cache misses. > >it's one of the big problems with Itanium: get a cache miss, and the whole thing >grinds to a halt. > >anthony this is true for _any_ architecture. OOOE might have a few things it can fiddle with while waiting, but any additional memory references are going to snag things up as well...
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