Thanks, John. My question was indeed more "what is?" than "how big?"
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 8:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Is there a significant performance penalty for non-aligned operands? Charles Mills wrote: > Pardon my ignorance: what exactly is a "cache line"? The caches are divided into 256-byte increments called "cache lines" in current processors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
