From: "Chris King" <colanderman@gmail.com>
To: "Richard Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: "Caml List" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] More registers in modern day CPUs
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:59:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875c7e070709061359r1b89580bx2be52a770b6b1271@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070906204524.GB10798@furbychan.cocan.org>
On 9/6/07, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> The 6502 was a successful 8-bit processor where the "on chip"
> registers were very few, but the first part of RAM acted as memory
> mapped registers.
I grew up on the 6502... beautiful architecture :)
> This is not feasible in current chips for a whole variety of reasons,
> starting with the fact that current RAM is hundreds of times slower
> than registers (and even L1 cache is 4-8 times slower).
Right, hence my notion of "register-level cache"... something smaller
and faster than L1 that replaces registers entirely. (John Harrison
got what I was on about.) I will check out that book though... I know
very little about cache structures.
- Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 6:20 Tom
2007-09-06 7:17 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-09-06 9:07 ` Richard Jones
2007-09-06 14:55 ` Chris King
2007-09-06 15:17 ` Brian Hurt
2007-09-06 15:54 ` Harrison, John R
2007-09-06 17:10 ` David MENTRE
2007-09-06 18:27 ` Harrison, John R
2007-09-06 18:28 ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-09-06 18:48 ` Brian Hurt
2007-09-06 18:48 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2007-11-20 15:32 ` [Caml-list] OCalm on Sony PS3 (was Re: More registers in modern day CPUs) Mike Hogan
2007-11-21 17:20 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-21 19:05 ` [Caml-list] OCaml " Mike Hogan
2007-11-23 6:44 ` Mike Hogan
2007-12-02 10:14 ` [Caml-list] OCalm " Xavier Leroy
2007-12-02 16:22 ` Mike Hogan
2007-12-02 22:19 ` Konrad Meyer
2007-12-03 0:09 ` [Caml-list] OCaml " Mike Hogan
2007-12-03 20:16 ` minithread (was OCaml on Sony PS3) Christophe Raffalli
2007-12-04 14:25 ` [Caml-list] " David MENTRE
2007-12-04 14:37 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2007-12-04 16:25 ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-12-04 17:33 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-12-04 18:00 ` Mike Hogan
2007-12-04 2:29 ` [Caml-list] OCalm on Sony PS3 (was Re: More registers in modern day CPUs) Gordon Henriksen
2007-09-06 20:48 ` [Caml-list] More registers in modern day CPUs Richard Jones
[not found] ` <20070906204524.GB10798@furbychan.cocan.org>
2007-09-06 20:59 ` Chris King [this message]
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