> Pardon my ignorance: what exactly is a "cache line"?

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache

 For purposes of this alignment discussion, the cache
line size on IBM mainframes has been 256 (x'100') bytes
for at least all of the z/Architecture machines, and
I think even for several generations before that. 

Jim Mulder   z/OS System Test   IBM Corp.  Poughkeepsie,  NY

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