On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ashok Gautham J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you have such huge RAMS, will the cache transfers be efficient since a > single miss will mean searching the entire RAM again...
RAM is addressed and not searched. What do you mean by searching entire RAM for a cache miss? > Al this while, We > had P*(Speed of cache retrieval) + (1-p)*(Speed of RAM retrieval). When hit > rate -> 1, the entire thing speeds up. But here, the time to locate on the > RAM might be significant too right? I've not seen this formula in the literature. Can you please explain what P, "speed of foo retrieval" means? - Raja _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
