POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Idle dreams : Re: Idle dreams Server Time
5 Sep 2024 17:20:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Idle dreams  
From: clipka
Date: 28 Aug 2009 05:40:17
Message: <4a97a601$1@news.povray.org>
scott schrieb:
> Yes, if we upset the Almight Cache, *shock* we might drop back to the 
> performance levels of the fastest RAM available.  The cache is there to 
> *speed up* stuff, I have no idea why you'd want a machine with a CPU 
> running at the same speed as the fastest RAM available, you're then 
> going to get the same levels of performance as if you upset the cache 
> continuously!

Just as a side note: Cache technically /is/ RAM.

Not "main memory" though.

(Nor is it typically DRAM, but SRAM instead: Way faster, and way more 
expensive...)


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