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Subject: Re: you guys are missing one of the biggest problem with IA64

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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