Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Right. So just to make sure I understand this... you're saying the cache 
> is managed in chunks of 32 bytes at a time? Like, if you fetch 1 byte of 
> data from memory, 32 bytes will be loaded into the least recently used 
> cache line? (Or whatever the cache policy is.)

> Are the cache lines aligned in any sort of way? (I'm wondering if it 
> grabs 32 bytes at the nearest 32-byte boundary or not.)

  You should read this article series if you want to know everything there
is to know about memory and cache:

http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

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                                                          - Warp

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