Re: The effect of cache on performance

Any development approach where you don't consider the effect of the cache is
going to have inferior performance to one that either implicitly, or
explicitly, takes advantage of the cache.

I do feel like we've been taught a lot of really good coding techniques that
have ignored this issue. It doesn't mean that the code oriented techniques
aren't good, for fast memory hardware our coding style and experience is
invaluable.

On 1 July 2010 06:12, Richard <[email protected]> wrote:

> I stumbled across this today and found it an interesting read.
> <http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327>
>
> It relates to our "virtual function calls are bad!"[*] discussion
> earlier.
>
> [*] they're not really bad, its cache misses that are bad.
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