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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: which CPU for XOR?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:40:50 -0400
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Dexter Filmore wrote:

>What type of operation is XOR anyway? Should be ALU, right?
>So - what CPU is best for software raid? One with high integer processing 
>power? 
>
Unless you're running really low on CPU, it probably doesn't matter... 
you run out of memory bandwidth on large data (larger than cache) 
anyway. That's my take on it.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979