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I don't think this is correct? You can certainly fetch more than one cycle's worth of data each cycle even on modern RAM. It's a question of throughput that ca
by cyberax 5mo ago
I don't think this is correct? You can certainly fetch more than one cycle's worth of data each cycle even on modern RAM.
It's a question of throughput that can be extended cheaply enough.
- userbinator 5mo agoI was referring to the 80s when RISCs were first invented.
- gblargg 5mo agoI'm reading that L1 takes 4-5 cycles to read on modern CPUs, whereas it was just one cycle in the late 1980s.