[Sunhelp] CPUs

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Sun Nov 28 01:31:09 CST 1999


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Lockwood [mailto:lockwood at ISI.EDU]
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 11:21 PM
> To: 'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] CPUs
> 
> Generally, a 150+MHz HyperSparc will be the fastest.  If your 
> code fits in
> the 1MB cache of an SM81 or does a lot of context switches, 
> the SM81 may
> well be faster (as the SM81 uses physical cache vs the 
> virtual cache of
> the HyperSparc which has to be dumped whenever the physical/virtual
> mappings change).

ok, back for a question.  :)  Reading comp.sys.sun.hardware just the other
day, somebody was talking about a 200MHz Hypersparc, running at a 4x MBUS
clocl multiplier.  Was this in error?
	Greg






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