Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 20:51:20 02/19/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 23:30:25, Eelco de Groot wrote: >I just posted on Rebel Board the impression I had that the K-6 III has "on die" >L2 cache (For people even more layman than me: small, fast piece of memory for >fast access by the CPU of which there are different "levels", L1, L2, L3) and >therefore was faster, for Rebel at least, than K-6 II. Do you think the >difference for TSCP to be much smaller? Yes. If you look at my TSCP benchmark page, you can see that a 200MHz Pentium runs TSCP just as fast as a 200MHz Pentium MMX. The Pentium MMX has more L1 cache than the regular Pentium, so that means TSCP will run (almost) entirely out of 16k of cache. So the fast L2 cache of the K6-3 should not make a difference for TSCP. It will make a difference for some other programs, though. (Rebel is evidently one of them.) -Tom
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