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Subject: Re: "Colo[u]rs"
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 02:26, Robert Love wrote:

> Cache color is how many indexes there are into a cache.  Caches
> typically aren't direct mapped:

Shouldn't of said direct mapped there, they actually are direct mapped. 
I meant the function from virtual memory to cache isn't one-to-one, i.e.
multiple virtual addresses map to similar cache lines.

I should of added that n-way set associativity is increasingly making
this all less needed, but its still has benefits (the downside is there
is overhead, obviously, to making sure everything maps appropriately). 

	Robert Love

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