Bigger L2 cache or more RAM?

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:28:02 pm Ed Jabbour wrote:
> Looking to get a new laptop.   One has a 1MB L2 cache and 1 GB RAM;
> another, a 512KB cache but 2 GB RAM.  Assuming all else being equal, either
> of these two "better"?

We're assuming Linux, right? Having code in cache in the larger cache is 
better... so laptop number one and you still have a possibility at upgrading 
the memory later on anyway... :')


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