On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:13:51PM +0100, Mark Twomey mentioned:
> Cache would probably drive the cost up too far, and I don't think this was
> designed to be a performance screamer.
> Some Level 1 cache would give it a fair performance pop. Which is why I
> think that and a slight MHz bump will be Leon-2.
That's what I was thinking. Even a kilobyte of cache, split to
instruction & data - something like the 68020 had - would be a big help.
> All in all, I don't think it's going to cause ARM to lose any sleep.
Indeed. We are talking ten year old CPU tech, fabbed on something a
little more recent...
Kate
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