Newsgroups: comp.arch
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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.
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