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Originally Posted by Peedyay
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At a guess, having a lot of cache may well speed up your browsing and stuff, but will reduce the available system memory so a bunch more stuff won't even run (e.g. Quake or TomTom)
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Hi all,
been a happy X50V owner for a cpl of months and finally got round to posting on aximsite :)
traditionally cache is all to do with preloading of instructions, or more accurately where the next jump is (as jump instructions are encountered, a log is made in the cache), essentially it works by effectively pre-empting the instructions to save time so the processor can be used more effectively. basically instructions are loaded before the processor needs them, and the cache basically stores the address where jump commands were found so it can load the relevant next instruction into the buffer to save having to load it from memory when the processor needs it. this eneables the processor to require less "ticks" per instruction. 1MB of cache is pretty big for a desktop, so is rather large for a pocket pc.
it might deliver a nice speed gain, but not sure how necessary it is, as some things will still need to be loaded from ROM anyway.
hope that's semi useful tech jargon ;) I would be interested to see the bench marks as well.
cheers guys :)