Re: Interesting scheduling times - NOT

Benoit Poulot-Cazajous (poulot@france.Sun.COM)
24 Sep 1998 19:58:59 +0200


Larry McVoy wrote:

> The claim was that cache interference would explain variations in run
> times of 70-100%. My counter claim was that if that were true, things
> like make would not be deterministic.

It is easy to verify with the Pentium performance monitors.
See http://www.sandpile.org/80x86/ev_p5.shtml

-- Benoit

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