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Subject: Re: 2.0.5-A: Very disheartening?
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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In-Reply-To: <9506080019.AA07812@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 7, 95 06:19:01 pm
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> > > This makes sense, actually.
> > 
> > Explain please...
> 
> Split I and D would cause this.

well, know of any split caches on x386 ?

> o	All failures of this type have been on Pentium boxes
> o	All failures of this type have been on non-Pentium boxes

None of these are true.

And BTW, the code is loaded into 0x300000..0x3fffff and uncompressed
into 0x100000..0x2fffff

And there is a jump to get over there, so the prefetch should be clean.

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Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ?