Subject: NoName and cache
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/16/2001 23:13:55
I've got a NoName, 16MB RAM (4x4M), and its speed is comparable to or
perhaps a bit slower than my SPARCs' (doing a "make build" with
comparable disk drives).

How much difference does adding cache actually make?  Does anyone have
before-and-after numbers, or even "feel" comments?  (I'm just thinking
that there's no point sinking effort into finding cache chips if it
really doesn't make any practical difference, for example.)  Does 15ns
versus 20ns cache make any practical difference?  Would adding more
ordinary RAM help?  (If so, anybody got a source for RAM for the thing?
All my 16MB sticks are 32-bit or 33-bit, not 36-bit, and I think
they're all slower than 70ns anyway.)

					der Mouse

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