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Re:An Introduction to Cache-Oblivious Data Structures by egnehots on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:34AM (#16322846)
It all become clearer if you replace it in your head by

"cache sizes oblivious" algorithms.

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Re:An Introduction to Cache-Oblivious Data Structures by philipov on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:56PM (#16326483)
Nope. Still sounds like "having no awareness of cache sizes and lacking a strategy for dealing with them."

No matter how you prefix it, 'oblivious' means you are missing something you are expected to be responsible for. It is a word expressing negative sentiment.

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