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Thank you all very much for your answers! I was pretty shocked to see that the P4 only has 20k of L1 cache and a whopping meg of L2 especially since the Celeron 370 has 32k of L1. I guess it all just depends how it's handled. Thanks again!

Slower how? Time to search since each is getting bigger? That's the only thing i can think of since they both run at the same clock speed.

So he's a kind of wacky question. In the Pentium 4, for example, there is 20k of on-die L1 cache and 1M of L2 cache on die. Since both of these caches are running at the same speed (say, 3.6Ghz), what's the point of keeping them separate? It made since when the caches were in different...