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   Message 930 of 2,753   
   Hans-Peter Diettrich to George Peter Staplin   
   Re: 32-bit vs. 64-bit x86 Speed   
   14 Apr 07 20:41:31   
   
   From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   George Peter Staplin wrote:   
      
   > Note: the modern CPUs use some form of SRAM for the high   
   > speed caches builtin to the CPU.   
      
   Note2: A cache holds frequently used data. In so far it were not a   
   special problem, when the cache loses data which are not used for a   
   long time. It were sufficient to detect a cache miss, before an access   
   to vanished data could occur.   
      
   Kind of LRU algorithm, implemented in hardware? ;-)   
      
   DoDi   
      
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