Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 13:26:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball <Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM> To: smp@csn.net Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentuim or Pentuim Pro ? Message-ID: <199704091826.NAA02162@compound.east.sun.com> References: <199704091535.KAA01745@compound.east.sun.com> <199704091755.LAA08240@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
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Quoth Steve Passe on Wed, 9 April: : the numbers I've seen for SDRAM suggest there isn't much gained in REAL WORLD : situations. Can't remember the specifics but do remember thinking at the time : that I apparently wasn't missing anything.. Yes, but... REAL WORLD is just another way of saying 'my application'. If you run data-intensive memory-walking codes, typical of scientific computations, SDRAM is a substantial win. If you run mostly from cache or random uncached locations, SDRAM is a wash. For my own typical applications, the REAL WORLD performance of SDRAM is substantially better than FPM/EDO/BEDO.
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