Test Pattern was a game show on the Canadian television channel MuchMusic in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It featured Canadian musicians who were prominent at the time. Dan Gallagher hosted the program. A game show is a radio or television program involving members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... MuchMusic logo MuchMusic (often called Much) is a 24-hour cable television music video and variety television channel based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which debuted on August 31, 1984 as one of the first Canadian cable specialty channels on the air. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... Dan Gallagher (?-1997) was the host of the CBC Television music video program Video Hits during the early 1990s. ...
Testpatterns and access sequences used by the program are designed to test burst transfers between CPU and L2 cache and/or memory, because such transfers occur most of the time in real applications.
To test transfers from L2 cache to the processor, some of test passes are performed with data prefetched from the memory to L2 cache.
To test transfers from processor to L2 cache, some of the test passes are performed with data prefetched to L2 cache during testpattern write.