a tale of 4 cpus (was: CPU running smalltalk bytecode)
Jecel Assumpcao Jr
jecel at merlintec.com
Tue Feb 12 02:28:07 UTC 2002
On Monday 11 February 2002 17:41, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> is claimed by the
authorities to have written:
> > [Would 4.8e+16 bytes per second make you happy?]
>
> Well I suppose we could live with it...is that burst or steady flow
> bandwidth?
I suppose you could call it burst, since although it could sustain that
pace in normal operation you only have 1/3 of that rate.
> Costs for cache misses, branches etc?
No such things. I did mention it was a totally non Von Neumann design.
Objects and messages to the metal.
You didn't ask about latency. The very worst case would be 4 ms!
Typical would be around 128 ns.
> As for a name - how
> about FHB? As in F*%%$%ng High Bandwidth :-)
He, he... you might have noticed that when dreams come true they are
sometimes nightmares :-)
-- Jecel
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