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From: eugene@cse.ucsc.edu (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.arch,comp.benchmarks,comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: benchmarking discussion at Usenix?
Followup-To: comp.arch,comp.benchmarks,comp.sys.super
Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:16:52 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
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In article <32DAD735.59E2@nas.nasa.gov>,
Hugh LaMaster  <lamaster@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Well, optimum cache line sizes have been studied extensively.

Well, there is the question of continuing validity......

....
>same on all three.  Numbers, anyone?

Look up the papers of Alan Jay Smith.  He used to read comp.arch
until the S/NR got too bad.  We produced a student between us now at USC.