> > For our (non-linux) embedded systems, if we're going to run from > > flash, we store the executable in flash uncompressed. Price is an > > issue which favors RAM, but speed issues no longer favor RAM - the new > > intel burst flash is faster than RAM in one of our systems.
Rob Taylor writes: > > isn't it only faster for burst reads tho? that sort of speed increase > doesn't really help when running code.. I think you might be mistaken here. Code accesses tend to be very linear, and since the Instruction cache loads entire lines at a time, burst accesses are a big win for code. Regards, Graham ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
