[Gllug] Beagle Board

[Peter Corlett]

On 13 Jan 2009, at 09:39, Chris Bell wrote:
[...]
> I understand that the 64 bit AMD/Intel chips seem to have finally  
> caught
> up with a sensible number of scratch memory locations, but still  
> need to do
> plenty of cache flushes, data transfers and dumps.

That's superscalar pipelined processors for you. Sticking a rocket up  
a pig's arse does make it quite hard to change its direction once it  
gets going.

In practice, it still works out faster, despite the stalls.


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