Nobody will ever make a sparc V9 chip with an I-cache with line sizes smaller than 32-bytes.
Doing it 8 bytes at a time is simply a bunch of wasted full pipeline flushes.
That's why we iterate 32-bytes at a time.
Nobody will ever make a sparc V9 chip with an I-cache with line sizes
smaller than 32-bytes.
Doing it 8 bytes at a time is simply a bunch of wasted full pipeline flushes.
That's why we iterate 32-bytes at a time.