On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:12:38 EDT, Horst von Brand said: > > some > > operating system primitives, such as message passing (based on a > > derivative by thompson of the "alice" project from plessey, imperial and > > manchester university in the mid-80s), hardware cache line lookups > > (which means instead of linked list searching, the hardware does it for > > you in a single cycle), stuff like that. > > Single CPU cycle for searching data in memory? Impossible. Well... if it was content-addressable RAM similar to what's already used for the hardware TLB's and the like - just that it's one thing to make a 32 or 256 location content-addressable RAM, and totally another to have multiple megabytes of the stuff. :)
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