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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by mcintyre1994 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @07:37PM (#7881054)
Would this really be fast enough to do away with cache completely? A 100x speedup from main memory to L1 cache sounds pretty low, although I don't have any figures to back that up. If this is slower than L1 will there not be a major performance drop to the point we'd have to use at least some cache still?
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Re:With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Co... by JohnBooty on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @09:09PM (#7881317)
Without knowing any of the details I'd guess that the processor would still benefit from some small amount of cache.
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