Re:What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf]
by a1369209993 on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:32PM
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> if only to understand WHY the "streaming" of data is efficient, while random-access is very inefficient.
I think what they're saying is that 99.9% of programmers don't need to know why, they just need to know that streaming access is 2-3x faster than random even without any memory stalls.
I think what they're saying is that 99.9% of programmers don't need to know why, they just need to know that streaming access is 2-3x faster than random even without any memory stalls.