Re: ten thousand small processes

From: D. J. Bernstein (djb_at_cr.yp.to)
Date: 06/27/03

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    Jon, you're simply wrong. The original Pentium and Pentium Pro have 8K
    L1 dcache; the Pentium MMX and Pentium II/III have 16K L1 dcache. See
    http://cr.yp.to/hardware/x86.html for pointers to more information.

    ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
    Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
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