On 11/11/06, Josef Chessor <josefcub at gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/10/06, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at
floodgap.com> wrote:
Just for yuks, how much difference does this
make? I can't see where it
would be a lot.
Speaking from experience, the actual difference is around five
percent, give or take. It wasn't much, but it seemed like a lot back
then. :)
I remember spending $20 for a 68010-L8 to get that 5% advantage on an
Amiga 1000 (one-instruction loop cache was the relevant feature).
Back in the day, 5% for _free_ would have been sweet (I never knew
about this hack when I had an XT).
-ethan