L2 cache

Intel's new Penryn-based Core 2 processors have as much as 12MB of L2 cache on the CPU. Considering my 2005-era Athlon 64 only has 512KB, that's a lot - a 2500% boost in 3 years. So here's the deal:

Dear Lazyweb, please write software to mount L2 cache as a drive à la RAM disks. Not for any particular reason. Just to do it.

topics: extropy , hardware , software

Comments

  1. dave, on Sunday 2nd March 2008, said:

    I'll use that l2disk to store SFCave.

    Hey, I'm that good at it.

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