Self-modifying code

Tim Olson tim at amdcad.AMD.COM
Sat Jul 16 03:50:53 AEST 1988


In article <1087 at ficc.UUCP> peter at ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
| I have a question:
| 
| 	Why are an Icache plus a Dcache better than just
| 	a big shared cache as big as both?

When the processor has separate instruction and data buses, so
concurrent accesses can occur to both caches.

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	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim at delirun.amd.com)



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