Re: memory reading and writing

From: Robert Redelmeier (redelm_at_ev1.net.invalid)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:39:23 GMT

Gyps <gyps_rueppelli@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Haven't all sorts of user-mode services started by the NT
> kernel by the time login prompt is shown? All that code
> wouldn't be able to fit my 16KB L1 cache...??

It doesn't need to! All that needs to fit is the important
loops. Execute-once code doesn't benefit from cache other
than the "burst-in" instruction loading. Just as important
is that data cache, particularly the stack.

-- Robert