scott wrote:
> I'm no expert, but the length of the tracks from the farthest away bit 
> of L1 cache to the CPU might be a problem.

That and the number of gates you have to go through to decode an address. 
Every layer of transistors you have to go through to translate an address to 
a cell is another gate time of delay.

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