Re: pramgas as compile-time-only

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:05 PM 8/8/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>Does the cache hit/miss depend on the nearness of the code or simply
>on code path? Obviously having the checked version be a wrapper of
>the base op and near it on the same page would be a VM win.

Code path, usually. Nearness is only an issue up to the cache line size, 
and that's normally not all that big. Getting code loaded in as a 
side-effect's nice, but it'll be swamped by the win you get from the third 
and subsequent hit of the cached code.

                                        Dan

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