Re: [ILUG] [OT] Laptop query

From: Brendan Halpin (brendan.halpin at domain ul.ie)
Date: Thu 14 Jun 2001 - 11:46:59 IST

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lbedford at domain lbedford.org (Liam Bedford) writes:

> The only significant difference between a Celeron 700 and a PIII 700
> on a laptop is the cache.. the L2 cache is much smaller (64K IIRC
> instead of 256, or is it 128?)

In this case, 128 vs 256.

>
> In general it's not a big problem, unless you're running software with
> a constant working set > the cache on the Celeron and < that on PIII.

If I knew what a working set was, I might worry about this, but
ignorance is bliss...

Brendan

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