I should add.. Cache Memory, by Jim Handy is a great book if you want to understand how caches work
- jim On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you like architecture check out: > > Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessey and Patterson > > It's a great book... but you'll find it a very dry read ;) > > - Sebastian > > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Ben Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:06:09PM +0200, Damon Jacobsen wrote: > >> I had thought that 64 bit processing was more than simply more > >> addressable RAM. Am I wrong? > >> > > > > unless I'm crazy this would have to mean, at a minimum, 64 bit registers > > as well. just this much means there are probably huge changes in the > > cpu architecture... such as possibly flat memory addressing instead of > > paging ... and stuff like that. stuff like... getting rid of memory > > segmentation, which I learned is universally thought to be a huge pain > > in the ass. (perhaps you can you can tell I don't know very well what > > I'm talking about. But that's what I've said and I'm sticking by it! ;) > > > > - Ben > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
