On Jul 2, 2012, at 5:42 PM, David Duncan wrote: > I suspect you are both talking past each other. > > Jens' assertion is that if you had a 128 byte cache, you could store either 8 > 64-bit integers or 16 32-bit integers in it. Whereas Kyle is asserting that > the CPU need only read 32-bits at a time (or less) from the cache for opcodes > that deal with 32-bits (or less) of data at a time.
I don't think so; I think Kyle was asserting that for a 32-bit integer on a 64-bit machine, the CPU would read 64 bits from the cache. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
