Self-modifying code

Ge' Weijers ge at hobbit.sci.kun.nl
Mon Jul 25 23:23:38 AEST 1988


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

The answer is bandwidth. The CPU does not have to stop filling the instruction
pipeline when it accesses/writes data.
-- 
Ge' Weijers, Informatics dept., Nijmegen University, the Netherlands
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