Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 06:57:54 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] cpu cache
>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Write-back forces a simultaneous write to memory with every write to cache, so there's a ram access delay at every write. Write-through writes to the cache but only writes to real memory if the space in the cache is required for something else, or the system shuts down, or it's told to. So it's usually quicker. (actually, that feels the wrong way round, but it's early in the morning)< >I wrote a long screed on what all the bios switches do which should be in the archive somewhere and may be helpful.< For those new to the list, there is a searchable archives that Mike Kopplin maintains at: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/ Wish we could convince Dan to include a link to it in the taglines (though there may be a few other changes a few of us would like to see down there). Matt Hanson (Shel) ^A new signature to shorten explainations off-list. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
