aglew@oberon.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) (07/26/90)
Just a comment:
The IBM RS/6000 has hardware support for misaligned accesses that
fall within one of their (large) cache lines. They trap for misaligned
accesses that span two cache lines.
In other words, they pay for a shift network, but not the
sequencing.
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Andy Glew, andy-glew@uiuc.edu
Propaganda:
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and a few others. "ph" is a very nice thing which more USEnet
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available for anonymous ftp from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, in the net/qi
subdirectory.