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Subject: Re: Fritz 9& the dual-core CPU

Author: Zappa

Date: 09:38:35 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 04:20:44, Pro Deo wrote:

>Hello Gian Carlo !
>
>Sorry-but a dual-core CPU don't means a dual CPU.
>Intel's technology(named Dothan)-for example-they place 2 cores together in one
>Central Processing Unit(CPU).The important thing to remember is that these two
>cores will use the same Level1 and Level 2 cache.The(small) advantage when using
>this architecture is these is no cache coherency.This means when one is running
>an instruction (calculation) the other core will always be able to acces the
>most recent variable.
>All the best !
>PD(Silvian/Romania)

Are you _sure_ they have a shared L1 cache?  I mean, that just doesn't seem very
likely.

anthony



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