Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Oct 2005 23:25:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: what's next for the linux kernel? |
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On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> OK.. I'll bite. How do you find the 5th or 6th entry in the linked > list, when only the first entry is in cache, in a single cycle, when a > cache line miss is more than a single cycle penalty, and you have > several "These are not the droids you're looking for" checks and go on > to the next entry - and do it in one clock cycle?
A nice saying from the last decade comes to mind:
"If you can do all that in one cycle, your cycles are too long."
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