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Bigger caches ? Where ?

Bigger caches ? Where ?

Posted Feb 21, 2008 9:46 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Bigger caches ? Where ? by khim
Parent article: vmsplice(): the making of a local root exploit

>This is place where Linus misses the point completely: there are no "bigger cache sizes".
There will never be "bigger cache sizes". Never. Pentium had 16 KiB L1 

Funny how you restrict the meaning of 'bigger cache size' to 'L1 cache size' to "make your
point".

Sure L1 won't grow, but L2 and L3 cache are also cache you know?



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