Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: dedicated vs general-purpose CPUs Message-ID: <1988Aug12.192749.4610@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <5254@june.cs.washington.edu> <76700032@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1988Aug3.180947.12070@utzoo.uucp> <1221@ficc.UUCP> <1216@nud.UUCP> <4438@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 88 19:27:49 GMT In article <4438@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >>... stick in another GP processor as an additional main CPU. > > This can work, but is not always optimal. It depends heavily on >either seperate address spaces or very fast shared memory. The same is true, of course, of memory-intensive graphics processors. Not quite to the same extent, since general-purpose CPUs run the memory a bit harder than specialized processors... but close. -- Intel CPUs are not defective, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology they just act that way. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu